Animals And Anthropology
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Day 12
Animals and Anthropology
Anthropology consists of a vast area of expertise. This expertise is categorized in four main categories biological anthropology, social anthropology, archeology, and linguistics. Containing in this 4 main field of studies is a limitless classification of different types of studies such as primatology or historical anthropology. With this immeasurable field of studies, anthropology invites another subject: animals. The study of animals can increase the vast diversity that anthropology contains.
Anthropologists have started to desert their earlier knowledge about animals and started to form new ideas through reconsidering the peculiar human-animal relationship. For example anthropologists are studying how forms of animal manufacture and management have started to renew the human-animal relationship.
Another topic relation to animal that strikes a curiosity for anthropologists is the act of domestication. Anthropologist question whether the act of domestication is appropriate to continue in the future and if it is then to what extent is domestication is allowed. With anthropologist studying ideas such as these, it is evident the further study of the animal will certainly redefine the human-animal relationship and lead to new enlightenments.
With the vast area of knowledge that anthropology holds, the study of animals will surely bring in new insight toward not only animals but also humans.
Tim Ingold
In his writing, Tim Ingold illustrates his knowledge on human animal relationships. He tries to classify animals in a category in comparison to humans. He goes on to talk about the arguments that two people state, Reed and Goodwin. Reed claims their animal represent themselves through the their independent movement. Goodwin declares that animals are self-determined beings who express spontaneous movements. In comparing animals with humans, Ingold also creates a diagram that refers to the have each is centered. Humans are
Day 12
Animals and Anthropology
Anthropology consists of a vast area of expertise. This expertise is categorized in four main categories biological anthropology, social anthropology, archeology, and linguistics. Containing in this 4 main field of studies is a limitless classification of different types of studies such as primatology or historical anthropology. With this immeasurable field of studies, anthropology invites another subject: animals. The study of animals can increase the vast diversity that anthropology contains.
Anthropologists have started to desert their earlier knowledge about animals and started to form new ideas through reconsidering the peculiar human-animal relationship. For example anthropologists are studying how forms of animal manufacture and management have started to renew the human-animal relationship.
Another topic relation to animal that strikes a curiosity for anthropologists is the act of domestication. Anthropologist question whether the act of domestication is appropriate to continue in the future and if it is then to what extent is domestication is allowed. With anthropologist studying ideas such as these, it is evident the further study of the animal will certainly redefine the human-animal relationship and lead to new enlightenments.
With the vast area of knowledge that anthropology holds, the study of animals will surely bring in new insight toward not only animals but also humans.
Tim Ingold
In his writing, Tim Ingold illustrates his knowledge on human animal relationships. He tries to classify animals in a category in comparison to humans. He goes on to talk about the arguments that two people state, Reed and Goodwin. Reed claims their animal represent themselves through the their independent movement. Goodwin declares that animals are self-determined beings who express spontaneous movements. In comparing animals with humans, Ingold also creates a diagram that refers to the have each is centered. Humans are