21H.909J / 21H.969J / 21A.390J / 21A.835J People and Other Animals, Fall 2010
This class provides a historical survey of the ways that people have interacted with their closest animal relatives, for example: hunting, domestication of livestock, exploitation of animal labor, scientific study of animals, display of exotic and performing animals, and pet keeping. Themes include...
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| description | This class provides a historical survey of the ways that people have interacted with their closest animal relatives, for example: hunting, domestication of livestock, exploitation of animal labor, scientific study of animals, display of exotic and performing animals, and pet keeping. Themes include changing ideas about animal agency and intelligence, our moral obligations to animals, and the limits imposed on the use of animals. |
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| title | 21H.909J / 21H.969J / 21A.390J / 21A.835J People and Other Animals, Fall 2010 |
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| title_short | 21H.909J / 21H.969J / 21A.390J / 21A.835J People and Other Animals, Fall 2010 |
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| topic | people animals hunting domestication livestock animal labor scientific experimentation pets zoos selective breeding vivisection vegetarian animal cruelty poaching conservation cloning colonialism imperialism mad cow disease taxidermy natural history museum ethology primatology animal welfare biodiversity |
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