Vinciane Despret

The Dance of the Arabian Babbler

Birth of an Ethological Theory
Übersetzer: Bussolini, Jeffrey

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Embedding herself in the field alongside ethologists in the Negev desert, Vinciane Despret reflects on scientists' processes of constructing theories within the milieu of the animals they study"--

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Produktdetails

• Univocal
• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 125mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9781517911522
• ISBN-10: 1517911524
• Artikelnr.: 61316299

Autorenporträt

Vinciane Despret is a philosopher and psychologist who has published on the relation between the human and the animal. Her most recent books include What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? (Minnesota, 2016), Au Bonheur des Morts, and Habiter en Oiseau. jeffrey bussolini is associate professor of sociology and anthropology at the City University of New York and codirector of the Center for Feline Studies. She is coeditor of The Philosophical Ethology of Vinciane Despret .

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Translator’s Introduction
jeffrey bussolini
Introduction
Part I. The Ethological Debates
1. The Theoretical Context: The Two Paradoxes of the Theory of Evolution
Altruism
Sexual Selection
2.  Rituals Between Altruism and Reproductive Function
Part II. The Dance of the Babbler
3. The Arabian Babbler
4. Models and Methods: Outline of a Field Study
5. Narratives and Metaphors
6. Models and Fictions
Conclusions
Notes