Experiencing Animal Minds: An Anthology of Animal-Human Encounters

Contents

Engaging Animal Minds: Matters of Perspective

ROBERT W. MITCHELL AND JULIE A. SMITH

Part I. Living with Animals

1. The Mental Life of Chickens as Observed Through Their Social Relationships

2. Tangible Affiliations: Photographic Representations of Touch Between Human and Animal Companions

JULIA SCHLOSSER

3. Beaver Voices: Grey Owl and Interspecies Communication

Part II. Anthropomorphisms

4. The Historical Animal Mind: “Sagacity” in Nineteenth-Century Britain

5. Science of the Monkey Mind: Primate Penchants and Human Pursuits

6. Can Animals Make “Art”? Popular and Scientific Discourses About Expressivity and Cognition in Primates

JANE C. DESMOND

Part III. Embodiments and Interembodiments

7. Toward a Privileging of the Nonverbal: Communication, Corporeal Synchrony, and Transcendence in Humans and Horses

8. Thinking Like a Whale: Interdisciplinary Methods for the Study of Human-Animal Interactions

TRACI WARKENTIN

9. The Meaning of “Energy” in Cesar Millan’s Discourse on Dogs

10. Inner Experience as Perception(like) with Attitude

ROBERT W. MITCHELL

11. The Voice of the Living: Becoming-Artistic and the Creaturely Refrain in D. H. Lawrence’s “Tortoise Shout”

12. Unique Attributes of the Elephant Mind: Perspectives on the Human Mind

BENJAMIN L. HART AND LYNETTE A. HART

13. Brains, Bodies, and Minds: Against a Hierarchy of Animal Faculties

DAVID DILLARD-WRIGHT

Part IV. Animal Versus Human Consciousness

14. Rethinking the Cognitive Abilities of Animals

15. Assessing Evidence for Animal Consciousness: The Question of Episodic Memory

16. What Are Animals Conscious Of?

Part V. Tailoring Representations to Audiences

17. Chimpanzees Attribute Beliefs? A New Approach to Answering an Old Nettled Question

18. Minding the Animal in Contemporary Art

19. Popular Beliefs and Understanding of the Dolphin Mind

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

Part VI. Synthesis

21. Animal Ethics and Animals’ Minds: Reflections

JULIE A. SMITHAND ROBERT W. MITCHELL