The Metaphysics of Apes: Negotiating the Animal-Human Boundary Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Metaphysics of Apes: Negotiating the Animal-Human Boundary Book

The Metaphysics of Apes traces the discovery and interpretation of the human-like great apes and the ape-like earliest ancestors of present-day humans. It shows how, from the days of Linnaeus to recent research, the sacred and taboo-ridden animal-human boundary was time and again challenged and adjusted. The unique dignity of humans is centrally on the minds of taxonomists, ethnologists, primatologists, and archaeologists, guiding their research considerably and a basic presupposition was that humans are not entirely part of nature but rather, transcend nature. This book thus is the first to offer an anthropological analysis of these anthropological disciplines in terms of their own cultural taboos and philosophical preconceptions.Read More

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    Tracing the interpretation of the human-like great apes and ape-like earliest ancestors of present-day humans, this study demonstrates how from the days of Linnaeus to the present, the sacred and taboo-ridden animal-human boundary was constantly tested. The unique dignity of humans, a central value in the West, was, and to some extent still is, on the minds of taxonomists, ethnologists, primatologists, and archaeologists. This book thus offers an anthropological analysis of the burgeoning anthropological disciplines in terms of their own cultural taboos and philosophical preconceptions.

  • 0521836832
  • 9780521836838
  • Raymond H. A. Corbey
  • 14 March 2005
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 238
  • illustrated edition
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