Synopses & Reviews
This book offers a unique interdisciplinary challenge to assumptions about animals and animality deeply embedded in our own ways of thought, and at the same time exposes highly sensitive and largely unexplored aspects of the understanding of our common humanity.
Review
"A thorough review of current thinking on the subject of human/animal differences, similarities, and relationships...[and] the manner in which humans have conceptualized animals, what it means to be human, and the ethical treatment of animals." American Anthropologist
About the Author
Timothy Ingold, FBA, FRSE is a British anthropologist, and Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.