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Images Of Animals (Hardcover, New)
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Images Of Animals (Hardcover, New)
Series: Animals Culture And Society
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Seeing a cat rubbing against a person, Charles Darwin described her
as \u0022in an affectionate frame of mind\u0022; for Samuel
Barnett, a behavioralist, the mental realm is beyond the grasp of
scientists andbehavior must be described technically, as a physical
action only. What difference does this difference make? In Eileen
Crist's analysis of the language used to portray animal behavior,
the difference \u0022is that in the reader's mind the very image of
the cat's 'body' is transfigured...from an experiencing
subject...into a vacant object.\u0022 Images of Animals examines
the literature of behavioral science, revealing how works with the
common aim of documenting animal lives, habits, and instincts
describe \u0022realities that are worlds apart.\u0022 Whether the
writer affirms the Cartesian verdict of an unbridgeable chasm
between animals and humans or the Darwinian panorama of
evolutionary continuity, the question of animal mind is ever
present and problematic in behavioral thought. Comparing the
naturalist writings of Charles Darwin, Jean Henri Fabre, and George
and Elizabeth Peckham to works of classical ethology by Konrad
Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen and of contemporary sociobiology,
Crist demonstrates how words matter. She does not attempt to defend
any of these constructions as a faithful representation of animal
existence, but to show how each internally coherent view molds the
reader's understanding of animals. Rejecting the notion that
\u0022a neutral language exists, or can be constructed, which
yields incontestably objective accounts of animal behavior,\u0022
Crist argues that \u0022language is not instrumental in the
depiction of animals and, in particular, it is never impartial with
respect to the question of animal mind.\u0022
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