Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism

Lorraine Daston and Gregg Mitman

Paper, 240 pages, 41 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13039-4
$27.00 / £18.50

March, 2005
Cloth, 240 pages, 41 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13038-7
$77.50 / £53.50

Preface

Introduction. The How and Why of Thinking with Animals, by Lorraine Daston and Gregg Mitman

1. Zoomorphism in Ancient India: Humans More Bestial Than the Beasts, by Wendy Doniger

2. Intelligences: Angelic, Animal, Human, by Lorraine Daston

3. The Experimental Animal in Victorian Britain, by Paul S. White

4. Comparative Psychology Meets Evolutionary Biology: Morgan's Canon and Cladistic Parsimony, by Elliott Sober

5. Anthropomorphism and Cross-Species Modeling, by Sandra D. Mitchell

6. People in Disguise: Anthropomorphism and the Human-Pet Relationship, by James A. Serpell

7. Digital Beasts as Visual Esperanto: Getty Images and the Colonization of Sight, by Cheryce Kramer

8. Pachyderm Personalities: The Media of Science, Politics, and Conservation, by Gregg Mitman

9. Reflections on Anthropomorphism in The Disenchanted Forest, by Sarita Siegel

Related Subjects

• Animal Studies

About the Author

Lorraine Daston is director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and honorary professor at the Humboldt-Universität, Berlin. Gregg Mitman is William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and professor of medical history and science and technology studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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