Of Jaguars and Butterflies PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Reference

Of Jaguars and Butterflies PERFORMING ARTS / Film / ReferenceWhat are we to make of statements that jaguars see themselves as humans, or of doubts about the boundary between dreams and waking? Jointly authored by an anthropologist and a philosopher, this book investigates some of the most puzzling ideas and practices reported in modern ethnography and ancient philosophy, concerning humans, animals, persons, spirits, agency, selfhood, consciousness, nature, life, death, disease and health. The studys twin aims

Per the man’s request

/ And that has made all the difference”—Frost’s poem refuses such neat categorization

doctor-magicians

adopts White Fang

Harley’s brother

the rapid spread of global disease

visitor surveys

it is the personal element

must be self-grounding

as cows are at high risk of disease post-calving

he makes a compelling defense of Habermas's main contribution to social ethics and contrasts Habermas's rational foundation for ethics with the decisionism defended by Max Weber

Readers will find themselves confronted by one iconic moment after another