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1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
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Introduction -- Unit Outline. Lesson 1. Animals and antiquity ; Lesson 2. Animals as myth and symbol ; Lesson 3. Human and nonhuman ; Lesson 4. Animals and labor ; Lesson 5. Human predation-hunting ; Lesson 6. Animals employed as story and entertainment ; Lesson 7. Animals as data ; Lesson 8. Animals and modern consumerism -- Assessment Options -- Enrichment Materials.
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Introduction: There has never been any purely human space in world history--ever. This course explores the history of human ideas about and uses of animals, and important ways of interpreting that past in order to understand the lives of historical animals from antiquity to the present. The course has four goals: 1. To understand how human-animal relationships changed over time since antiquity with the advent and development of human ascendancy on the planet; 2. To understand how ideas about and uses of animals changed due to the development of Christianity, the scientific method, capitalism, and urbanization; 3. To identify and explain the many contradictions in historical ideas about and uses of animals; 4. To encourage students to think about how and why, animal behavior and its change over time are not documented or explained in the assigned readings, and thus the anthropocentrism inherent in the academic study of animals in the past (such as it has been over the last twenty-five years)
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Includes bibliographical references
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DOI:
10.5040/9781474209465.001
