ANTH-UA 1 Lecture 11: Tim Ingold and Rane Willerslev FULL READING NOTES
3 Nov 2016
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***all information provided here belongs to respective authors tim ingold and rane willerslev; i claim no ownership over any of the following ideas*** We should think of the organism not as containing life, or expressing it, but as emergent within the life process itself. All organisms are not things, but beings. As beings, persons are organisms, and being organisms they are not impartial observers but participate from within the continuum of life. Special treatment of household pets constitutes the exception that namely, in the. West, to be a person is to be human. Humanity rubbed off on pets, but they are still treated as infants because their actual personhood can never be fully developed. Animal characters in fables are used to deliver a commentary on the nature of human society; children are taught to distinguish between telling stories and recounting the facts .
