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.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.…mehr
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.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.
Raymond Corbey is Professor of Epistemology and Anthropology at Leiden University and Lecturer in philosophy at Tilburg University, both in the Netherlands. He has published extensively on the history of philosophical, scientific, and colloquial views of humans, animals, evolution, culture and cultural others, as well as on the history and epistemology of anthropology and the formation of ethnographic museums and collections. He is co-director of the research program Thoughtful Hunters? Neanderthal Behavioural and Cognitive Socioecology. He is the co-editor with Wil Roebroeks of Studying Human Animals: Disciplinary History and Epistemology (2001).
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Preface Introduction Part I. Ambiguous Apes: 1. Traditional views of apes 2. The discovery of apes and early hominids 3. Citizens and animals Part II. Crafting the Primate Order: 4. Homo sylvestris 5. The primate order 6. Separate again 7. Speaking apes Part III. Up From the Ape: 8. 'A grim and grotesque procession' 9. The monstrous other within 10. Narrative and paradox Part IV. Homo's Humanness: 11. The earliest homo 12. 'Ancients' and 'Moderns' Part V. 'Symbolic Man' in Ethnology: 13. A discipline's identity 14. Biological approaches rejected Part VI. Pan Sapiens?: 15. Fierce or gentle 16. Tools, mirrors, symbols 17. Ape and human rights Part VII. Beyond Dualism: 18. An epistemological reminder 19. Rethinking dichotomies Bibliography.
Preface Introduction Part I. Ambiguous Apes: 1. Traditional views of apes 2. The discovery of apes and early hominids 3. Citizens and animals Part II. Crafting the Primate Order: 4. Homo sylvestris 5. The primate order 6. Separate again 7. Speaking apes Part III. Up From the Ape: 8. 'A grim and grotesque procession' 9. The monstrous other within 10. Narrative and paradox Part IV. Homo's Humanness: 11. The earliest homo 12. 'Ancients' and 'Moderns' Part V. 'Symbolic Man' in Ethnology: 13. A discipline's identity 14. Biological approaches rejected Part VI. Pan Sapiens?: 15. Fierce or gentle 16. Tools, mirrors, symbols 17. Ape and human rights Part VII. Beyond Dualism: 18. An epistemological reminder 19. Rethinking dichotomies Bibliography.
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