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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://mcgill.worldcat.org/oclc/5549007406 Title: The Humanity of Animals and the Animality of Humans: A View from Biological Anthropology Inspired by J. M. Coetzee's "Elizabeth Costello" Publisher: ISBN/ISSN: 0002-7294 OCLC:5549007406

  
  

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The Humanity of Animals and the Animality of Humans: A View from Biological Anthropology Inspired by J. M. Coetzee's "Elizabeth Costello"

Author:	Agustin Fuentes
Edition/Format:	Article : English
Publication:	American Anthropologist, v108 n1 (20060301): 124-132
	Peer-reviewed
Other Databases:	WorldCat; WorldCat
Summary:	In his novel "Elizabeth Costello" (2003), J. M. Coetzee's title character espouses philosophical perspectives on cruelty and the human condition in a series of fictionalized lectures. In particular, she takes on the question of human cruelty to animals. As novelist, Coetzee relies on lyrical statements about the nature of cruelty, analogies between the atrocities of fascism and factory farms, and ethical elitism to address these issues. In this article, I use anthropological data to investigate such constructed notions of "human cruelty" and "human nature." I end with a discussion of cross-cultural variation in animal use by humans and of the current animal rights movement. The goal of this article is to engage, anthropologically, perspectives on cruelty in human natures and our relations with other animals.  Read more...
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