Aesop's Anthropology: A Multispecies Approach (Forerunners: Ideas First)

Synopsis

Aesop{u2019}s Anthropology Is A Guide For Thinking Through The Perplexing Predicaments And Encounters That Arise As The Line Between Human And Nonhuman Shifts In Modern Life. Recognizing That Culture Is Not Unique To Humans, John Hartigan Jr. Asks What We Can Learn About Culture From Other Species. He Pursues A Variety Of Philosophical And Scientific Ideas About What It Means To Be Social Using Cultural Dynamics To Rethink What We Assume Makes Humans Special And Different From Other Forms Of Life. Through An Interlinked Series Of Brief Essays, Hartigan Explores How We Can Think Differently About Being Human. Are Natives Plants Or People? -- Nonhuman Cultures -- The Social (re)turn -- Diversity -- Horticultural Hermeneutic -- Webs Without Meanings -- What Is A Garden? -- Homology -- Species Thinking -- The Fable As Form -- Model Organisms -- Species In The News -- Identifying Species -- Domestication -- Have Culture, Will Travel. John Hartigan, Jr. Licensed Under A Creative Commons Attribution-noncommercial 4.0 International License--title Page Verso. Includes Bibliographical References.