Among Animals
The tendency to see humans as special and separate influences even practices like scientific taxonomy which explicitly place them among other animals. The animal-related scholarship that has emerged throughout the humanities and social sciences often reveals analogous tensions. Animal topics have si...
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2015
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| author | Ritvo, Harriet |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. History Section |
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| description | The tendency to see humans as special and separate influences even practices like scientific taxonomy which explicitly place them among other animals. The animal-related scholarship that has emerged throughout the humanities and social sciences often reveals analogous tensions. Animal topics have similarly inspired historians, including environmental historians, but historical perspectives have become somewhat marginalised within the field labeled 'animal studies'. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/962242022-10-01T15:42:35Z Among Animals Ritvo, Harriet Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. History Section Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Ritvo, Harriet Ritvo, Harriet The tendency to see humans as special and separate influences even practices like scientific taxonomy which explicitly place them among other animals. The animal-related scholarship that has emerged throughout the humanities and social sciences often reveals analogous tensions. Animal topics have similarly inspired historians, including environmental historians, but historical perspectives have become somewhat marginalised within the field labeled 'animal studies'. 2015-03-27T17:23:47Z 2015-03-27T17:23:47Z 2014-11 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 09673407 17527023 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96224 Ritvo, Harriet. “Among Animals.” Environment and History 20, no. 4 (November 1, 2014): 491–498. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6278-3571 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/096734014X14091313617208 Environment and History Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf White Horse Press Prof. Ritvo via Michelle Baildon |
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