Format:
xi, 271 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781478001515
,
9781478001164
Series Statement:
ANIMA
Content:
Introduction: toward a theory of infrahumanity -- Bioexpansionism, 1900s-1930s -- Brief histories of time: nature, culture, and the making of modern childhood -- Ocular anthropomorphisms: eugenics and primatology at the threshold of the "almost human" -- Extraterrestriality, 1940s-1970s -- On alien ground: extraterrestrial sightings, atomic warfare, and the undoing of the human body -- Inner and outer spaces: exobiology, human genetics, and the disembodiment of corporeal difference -- Interiority, 1980s-2010s -- Of sodomy and cannibalism: disgust, dehumanization, and the rhetorics of same-sex and cross-species contagion -- Everything except the squeal: porcine hybridity in the obesity epidemic and xenotransplantation research -- Conclusion. the plurality is near: techniques of symbiotic re-speciation
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781478002598
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Glick, Megan H., 1980 - Infrahumanisms Durham : Duke University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781478002598
Language:
English
Keywords:
Anthropologie
;
Mensch
;
Tiere
;
Außerirdisches Leben
;
Humanismus
;
Geschichte 1920-2018
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