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Politics of Species

By: Raymond Corbey

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The assumption that humans are cognitively and morally superior to other animals is fundamental to social democracies and legal systems worldwide. It legitimises treating members of other animal species as inferior to humans. The last few decades have seen a growing awareness of this issue, as evidence continues to show that individuals of many other species have rich mental, emotional and social lives. Bringing together leading experts from a range of disciplines, this volume identifies the key barriers to a definition of moral respect that includes nonhuman animals. It sets out to increase concern, empathy and inclusiveness by developing strategies that can be used to protect other animals from exploitation in the wild and from suffering in captivity. The chapters link scientific data with normative and philosophical reflections, offering unique insight into controversial issues around the ethical, political and legal status of other species"--

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1107424380

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The Metaphysics of Apes

Negotiating the Animal-Human Boundary

By: Raymond Corbey

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Negotiating the Animal-Human Boundary

By: Raymond Corbey

This book traces the discovery and interpretation of the human-like great apes and shows how the taboo-ridden animal-human boundary was challenged.

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0521836832

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The Metaphysics of Apes

Negotiating the Animal-Human Boundary

By: Raymond Corbey

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Negotiating the Animal-Human Boundary

By: Raymond Corbey

This book traces the discovery and interpretation of the human-like great apes and shows how the taboo-ridden animal-human boundary was challenged.

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Dormont

By: Raymond W. Smith

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Dormont

By: Raymond W. Smith

Dormont Borough, incorporated in 1909, had slightly less than 10,000 citizens when I lived there in the 1950's. It had no streets, only avenues, and many of them named after the states of the union-like a Monopoly board. Its two connected business districts on Potomac and West Liberty Avenues provided tidy commercial areas that filled the needs of its citizens. I once counted 14 bars. And most prominent of all, Dormont's 26-acre park stood at the heart of the borough. It had a huge swimming pool, a number of athletic fields and many alcoves to hide in. Picnics, sports events, dances, sled riding, proms at the bathhouse, fireworks on Memorial Day (which we typically called Dormont Day) gave its citizens an extraordinarily encapsulated experience. From our point of view, Dormont Park, and, in fact, Dormont itself, was complete.

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1257921630

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9781257921638

Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology

By: Raymond Pierotti

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Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology

By: Raymond Pierotti

Indigenous ways of understanding and interacting with the natural world are characterized as Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), which derives from emphasizing relationships and connections among species. This book examines TEK and its strengths in relation to Western ecological knowledge and evolutionary philosophy. Pierotti takes a look at the scientific basis of this approach, focusing on different concepts of communities and connections among living entities, the importance of understanding the meaning of relatedness in both spiritual and biological creation, and a careful comparison with evolutionary ecology. The text examines the themes and principles informing this knowledge, and offers a look at the complexities of conducting research from an indigenous perspective.

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1136939016

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Politics of Species

By: Raymond Corbey

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Raja Ampat Ritual Art

Spirit Priests and Ancestor Cults in New Guinea's Far West

By: Raymond Hubertus Antonius Corbey

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Raja Ampat Ritual Art

Spirit Priests and Ancestor Cults in New Guinea's Far West

By: Raymond Hubertus Antonius Corbey

During the past 100 years the traditional ritual art related to ancestor cults, spirit beliefs and headhunting has withered in the sparsely populated Raja Ampat archipelago. Setting out to establish an inventory of the 'mon' spirit figures, 'korwars' and secret priests' drawings, this book delves into the exploits of naturalists, explorers, colonial administrators and, in particular, missionaries since the beginning of the 19th century. The social and cosmological background of the spirit and ancestor figurines from the archipelago is discussed extensively, with a wealth of fascinating details and new insights. In the process it is shown how the demise and the exodus of the traditional art resulted from complex interactions between indigenous agency, conversion, cargo cult activity, modernization and, last but not least, interventions by administrators. The abundantly illustrated book includes a number of stunning, sacred-secret drawings depicting the spirit world, devised by indigenous priests to serve them in their rituals. Acquired during the 1930s, these drawings were long believed to be lost but have recently been rediscovered. Raymond Corbey is an anthropologist attached to Leiden University, the Netherlands. He also published - 'Headhunters from the Swamps: The Marind Anim of New Guinea as seen by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, 1905-1925' (2010), and - 'Of Jars and Gongs: Two keys to Ot Danum Dayak Cosmology' (2016).

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9054500182

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The Raymond Chandler Papers

Selected Letters and Non-fiction, 1909-1959

By: Raymond Chandler,Tom Hiney,Frank MacShane

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The Raymond Chandler Papers

Selected Letters and Non-fiction, 1909-1959

By: Raymond Chandler,Tom Hiney,Frank MacShane

Featuring never-before-published letters and writings by Raymond Chandler, this new selection of personal writings introduces readers to the man behind the public persona.

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0871137860

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Peter Cooper

The Riverside Biographical Series

By: Rossiter Raymond

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Peter Cooper

The Riverside Biographical Series

By: Rossiter Raymond

DURING the last decade of Peter Cooper's life, the writer of this biographical sketch enjoyed some degree of intimacy with him, as professional adviser and traveling companion, and also, incidentally, as consulting engineer of the firm of Cooper and Hewitt, and manager of a department in the Cooper Union. This circumstance, together with the preference kindly expressed by Mr. Cooper's family, doubtless influenced the selection of the writer for the honorable task of preparing this book,—a task which was welcome as a labor of love, though the execution of it has been hindered and impaired by the demands of other duties. The real difficulty has been to compress within the prescribed limits a story covering so many years and so many topics, yet not possessing those features of dramatic action or adventure which could be treated briefly, with picturesque effect.

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1492179477

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Politics of Species

Politics of Species

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The Metaphysics of Apes

Dormont

Dormont

Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology

Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology

Politics of Species

Politics of Species

Raja Ampat Ritual Art

Raja Ampat Ritual Art

The Raymond Chandler Papers

The Raymond Chandler Papers

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