Humans and Other Animals

Edited by Arien Mack
Foreword by Marc Bekoff

Throughout history and in all places, animals have been an essential part of human culture. They have been hunted and domesticated, studied and mythologized, feared and loved. Our complicated relationships with other animals have repeatedly found expression in art, literature, religion, and science.

In 1995 the New School for Social Research sponsored a landmark conference to explore human/animal interactions. Published as a special issue of the journal Social Research (under the title In the Company of Animals), this collection is now available for the first time in a paperback edition.

Table of Contents

• Foreword: Marc Bekoff
• Editor's Introduction: Arien Mack
• Categories
  Introduction: Harriet Ritvo
  Aristotle, the Scale of Nature, and Modern Attitudes to Animals: Juliet Clutton-Brock
  A Taxonomy of Knowing: Vicki Hearne
  “I named them as they passed”: John Hollander
• Histories
  Introduction: Nicholas Humphrey
  Border Trouble: Harriet Ritvo
  The Spotted Hyena From Aristotleto the Lion King: Stephen Glickman
  Animals and the Law: Jerrold Tannenbaum
  Keynote Address: Stephen Jay Gould
• Representations
  Introduction: John Hollander
  Fabling Beasts: Nicholas Howe
  Wild Animals in Print: Gerald Vizenor
• Sameness and Difference
  Introduction: Cora Diamond
  Animal Consciousness: Daniel C. Dennett
  Apes- Language and Cognitive Skills: Duane Rumbaugh
  Animal Minds, Animal Morality:Colin McGinn
• Everyday Life
  Introduction: Kenneth Prewitt
  Bestial Myths: Wendy Doniger
  The Sound of Horns and Hunting: Matt Cartmill
  Scientists and Animal Research: Andrew Rowan

Arien Mack is Marrow Professor of Psychology at the New School University and the editor of Social Research. Marc Bekoff is a professor of environmental, populations, and organismic biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.