UID:
almahu_9949767289502882
Format:
1 online resource (342 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520391208
Content:
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This book investigates rabbinic treatises relating to animals, humans, and other life-forms. Through an original analysis of creaturely generation and species classification by late ancient Palestinian rabbis and other thinkers in the Roman Empire, Rafael Rachel Neis shows how rabbis blurred the lines between humans and other beings, even as they were intent on classifying creatures and tracing the contours of what it means to be human. Recognizing that life proliferates by mechanisms beyond sexual copulation between two heterosexual "male" and "female" individuals of the same species, the rabbis proposed intricate alternatives. In parsing a variety of creatures, they considered overlaps and resemblances across seemingly distinct species, upsetting in turn unmitigated claims of human distinctiveness. When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven enters conversations in animal studies, queer theory, trans theory, and feminist science studies to provincialize sacrosanct ideals of reproduction in favor of a broader range that spans generation, kinship, and species. The book thereby offers powerful historical alternatives to the paradigms associated with so-called traditional ideas.
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation, Ancient Texts, and Images -- Introduction -- 1. Difference -- 2. Multiplicity -- 3. Menagerie -- 4. Hybrid -- 5. Generation -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Source Index -- Subject Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Neis, Rafael Rachel When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven Berkeley : University of California Press,c2023 ISBN 9780520391192
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
