Experiencing Animal Minds: An Anthology of Animal-Human Encounters (Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law)

Engaging Animal Minds: Matters of Perspective, by Robert W. Mitchell and Julie A. Smith Part I. Living with Animals 1. The Mental Life of Chickens as Observed Through Their Social Relationships, by Karen Davis 2. Tangible Affiliations: Photographic Representations of Touch Between Human and Animal Companions, by Julia Schlosser 3. Beaver Voices: Grey Owl and Interspecies Communication, by Albert Braz Part II. Anthropomorphisms 4. The Historical Animal Mind: “Sagacity” in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by Rob Boddice 5. Science of the Monkey Mind: Primate Penchants and Human Pursuits, by Sara Waller 6. Can Animals Make “Art”? Popular and Scientific Discourses About Expressivity and Cognition in Primates, by Jane C. Desmond Part III. by Embodiments and Interembodiments 7. Toward a Privileging of the Nonverbal: Communication, Corporeal Synchronicity, and Transcendence in Humans and Horses, by Gala Argent 8. Thinking Like a Whale: Interdisciplinary Methods for the Study of Human-Animal Interactions, by Traci Warkentin 9. The Meaning of “Energy” in Cesar Millan’s Discourse on Dogs, by Julie A. Smith 10. Inner Experience as Perception(like) with Attitude, by Robert W. Mitchell 11. The Voice of the Living: Becoming-Artistic and the Creaturely Refrain in D. H. Lawrence’s “Tortoise Shout”, by Carrie Rohman 12. Unique Attributes of the Elephant Mind: Perspectives on the Human Mind, by Benjamin L. Hart and Lynette A. Hart 13. Brains, Bodies, and Minds: Against a Hierarchy of Animal Faculties, by David Dillard-Wright Part IV. Animal Versus Human Consciousness 14. Rethinking the Cognitive Abilities of Animals, by Gary Steiner 15. Assessing Evidence for Animal Consciousness: The Question of Episodic Memory, by Paula Droege 16. What Are Animals Conscious Of?, by Alain Morin Part V. Tailoring Representations to Audiences 17. Chimpanzees Attribute Beliefs? A New Approach to Answering an Old Nettled Question, by Robert W. Lurz 18. Minding the Animal in Contemporary Art, by Jessica Ullrich 19. Popular Beliefs and Understanding of the Dolphin Mind”, by “Jessica Sickler, John Fraser, and Diana Reiss 20. Perceiving the Minds of Animals: Sociological Warfare, the Social Imaginary, and Mediated Representations of Animals Shaping Human Understandings of Animals, by Brian M. Lowe Part VI. Synthesis 21. Animal Ethics and Animals’ Minds: Reflections, by Julie A. Smith and Robert W. Mitchell Contributors Index