As humans, we love projecting our emotions on non-human things like animals, objects and weather events. I’m told the psychological term for this is anthropomorphism, which is difficult to say three ...

One morning back in the late 1990s, I was walking through the back streets of Drogheda, Ireland. The alleyways were strewn with litter. Amid the detritus, I spotted a tiny stuffed monkey, a casualty ...

Shane Saunderson is a Research Fellow with the Human Futures Studio. He is a former Vanier Canada Scholar. University of Toronto provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA.

Essay on categorizing the representations of humans and animals on Central African musical instruments. Laurenty develops a four-part schema (page 48), which is based on whether the whole or a part of ...

Introduction: the significance of language in portraying animals -- Darwin's anthropomorphism -- Lifeworld and subjectivity: naturalists' portraits of animals -- The ethological constitution of ...