Images Of Animals.
Seeing a cat rubbing against a person, Charles Darwin described her as "in an affectionate frame of mind"; 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...
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Significance of Language in Portraying Animals; 1. Darwin's Anthropomorphism; 2. Lifeworld and Subjectivity: Naturalists' Portraits of Animals; 3. The Ethological Constitution of Animals as Natural Objects; 4. Genes and Their Animals: The Language of Sociobiology; 5. Words as Icons: Comparative Images of Courtship; 6. Unraveling the Distinction Between Action and Behavior; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
