Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes, and Animals

Evaluates the significance and usefulness of anthropomorphism for the scientific understanding of animals by presenting diverse ideas from historians, philosophers, anthropologists, primatologists, psychologists, behaviorists, and ethologists.

About the author

Robert W. Mitchell is Associate Professor of Psychology at Eastern Kentucky University and co-edited Deception: Perspectives on Human and Nonhuman Deceit, also published by SUNY Press. Nicholas S. Thompson is Professor of Psychology and Ethology at Clark University and editor of the Perspectives in Ethology series of Plenum Press. H. Lyn Miles is UC Foundation Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga and Director of Project Chantek.

Product details

• Assisted by: H Lyn Miles (Editor), H. Lyn Miles (Editor), Robert W Mitchell (Editor), Robert W. Mitchell (Editor), Nicholas Thompson (Editor), Nicholas S Thompson (Editor), Nicholas S. Thompson (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.11.1996
• EAN: 9780791431269
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-3126-9
• No. of pages: 538
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 229 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 726 g
• Series: SUNY Series in Philosophy; SUNY series in Philosophy
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories