Minding Animals in the Old and New Worlds

Name: Minding Animals in the Old and New Worlds
SKU: 9781487503321
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Author: Steven Wagschal
ISBN: 9781487503321

A Cognitive Historical Analysis

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

AvSteven Wagschal

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Minding Animals in the Old and New Worlds employs current research in cognitive science and the philosophy of animal cognition to explore how humans have understood non-human animals in the Iberian world, from the Middle Ages through the early modern period. Using texts from European and Indigenously-informed sources, Steven Wagschal argues that people tend to conceptualize the minds of animals in ways that reflect their own uses for the animal, the manner in which they interact with the animal, and the place in which the animal lives. Often this has little if anything to do with the actual cognitive abilities of the animal. However, occasionally early authors made surprisingly accurate assumptions about the thoughts and feelings of animals.Wagschal explores a number of ways in which culture and human cognition interact, including: the utility of anthropomorphism; the symbolic use of animals in medieval Christian texts; attempts at understanding the minds of animals in Spain’s early modern farming and hunting books; the effect of novelty on animal conceptualizations in "New World" histories, and how Cervantes navigated the forms of anthropomorphism that preceded him to create the first embodied animal minds in fiction.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-10-16
Mått150 x 234 x 33 mm
Vikt660 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieToronto Iberic
Antal sidor360
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781487503321

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"Minding Animals is a welcome addition to the growing body of studies about animals in Hispanism. It shows how early Spanish literature advocates the mindedness of animals and teaches nuanced meanings of anthropomorphism as a productive way to understand animals." - John Beusterien, Texas Tech University (Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Volume XCVI, Number 10, 2019) "Steven Wagschal's book is a goldmine of information about animal minds." - Marc Bekoff (Psychology Today) "This is a fine example of literary research and writing that ties into recent trends in interdisciplinary human–animal studies, ethology, and medieval and early modern studies."- Martha Few, Pennsylvania State University (Bulletin of the Comediantes) "Minding Animals is a carefully researched, accessible, and highly readable book that makes a valuable contribution to the history of animal cognition."- Helen Cowie, University of York (Speculum)