Thinking Animals : Animals and the Development of Human Intelligence

by Shepard, Paul (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780670700615
• ISBN10: 0670700614
• Format: Hardcover
• Publisher: Viking Adult

Summary

In a world increasingly dominated by human beings, the survival of other species becomes more and more questionable. In this brilliant book, Paul Shepard offers a provocative alternative to an "us or them" mentality, proposing that other species are integ

Table of Contents

Foreword
On Animals Thinking	p. 1
Preparing the Soil for Thought	p. 1
The Post-Archaic World; or How Thinkers Started the Day with Cereals	p. 7
You Think What You Eat	p. 11
What the Arboreal Eye Knows	p. 15
Speech as the Summons to Images	p. 18
The Zoology of the Self	p. 25
Art as the Collective Imagery of Animal Form	p. 30
The Mental Menagerie	p. 38
Language and Taxonomy	p. 41
The Vocal Obligations of Infancy	p. 46
Concealed Creatures	p. 56
Animal Protagonists	p. 60
The Intellectual Abuse of Animals	p. 64
Organs as Creatures	p. 67
The Dialogue of Inside-Outside	p. 69
Ambiguous Animals	p. 76
The Margins of Our Attention	p. 77
Imaginary Combination Animals	p. 83
Heads and Tails	p. 89
Monsters	p. 98
The Diabolical Ape	p. 103
Monsters and Social Stress	p. 107
The Living Coded Messages	p. 109
Imitating Animals: The Cast of Characters	p. 115
The Drama of the Animal	p. 120
Totemic Culture	p. 125
Adornment and Animality	p. 130
The Lele, a Contemporary Totemic Culture	p. 142
The Game of Dividing and Dividing the Game	p. 144
Pretending That Animals are People: The Character of Caste	p. 148
Examples from the Thais, Nuer, and Balinese	p. 150
Animals in the Domesticated Society	p. 157
Caricature	p. 166
Animals in Folktales	p. 169
Reynard	p. 172
The Secular Bestiaries	p. 177
Literary Thought and Animals	p. 179
Machines as Animals	p. 187
The Pet as Minimal Animal	p. 192
Alone on a Domesticated Planet	p. 207
The Aesop Account	p. 213
The Zoological Groups	p. 226
The Three Faunas	p. 231
What Good Are Animals?	p. 239
Ecology	p. 244
Ethics	p. 245
The Inadequacy of Economic, Ecological, and Ethical Arguments	p. 246
A Fourth Argument: Human Growth and Thought	p. 249
For Parents and Teachers	p. 252
Taxonomy and Cognition	p. 253
Mimicry and Selfhood	p. 254
Analogy and Abstraction	p. 256
Animals: Our Link with the Nonhuman Cosmos	p. 258
Notes and References	p. 263
Index	p. 271
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