Engaging Animal Minds: Matters of Perspective ................ 1
ROBERT W. MITCHELL AND JULIE A. SMITH
Part I. Living with Animals
1 The Mental Life of Chickens as Observed Through Their
Social Relationships ........................................ 13
KAREN DAVIS
2 Tangible Affiliations: Photographic Representations of
Touch Between Human and Animal Companions ................... 30
JULIA SCHLOSSER
3 Beaver Voices: Grey Owl and Interspecies Communication ...... 51
ALBERT BRAZ
Part II. Anthropomorphisms
4 The Historical Animal Mind: "Sagacity" in Nineteenth-
Century Britain ............................................. 65
ROB BODDICE
5 Science of the Monkey Mind: Primate Penchants and Human
Pursuits .................................................... 79
SARA WALLER
6 Can Animals Make "Art"? Popular and Scientific Discourses
About Expressivity and Cognition in Primates ................ 95
JANE C. DESMOND
Part III. Embodiments and Interembodiments
7 Toward a Privileging of the Nonverbal: Communication,
Corporeal Synchrony, and Transcendence in Humans and
Horses ..................................................... 111
GALA ARGENT
8 Thinking Like a Whale: Interdisciplinary Methods for the
Study of Human-Animal Interactions ......................... 129
TRACI WARKENTIN
9 The Meaning of "Energy" in Cesar Millan's Discourse on
Dogs ....................................................... 142
JULIE A. SMITH
10 Inner Experience as Perception(like) with Attitude ......... 154
ROBERT W. MITCHELL
11 The Voice of the Living: Becoming-Artistic and the
Creaturely Refrain in D.H. Lawrence's "Tortoise Shout" ..... 170
CARRIE ROHMAN
12 Unique Attributes of the Elephant Mind: Perspectives on
the Human Mind ............................................. 186
BENJAMIN L. HART AND LYNETTE A. HART
13 Brains, Bodies, and Minds: Against a Hierarchy of Animal
Faculties .................................................. 201
DAVID DILLARD-WRIGHT
Part IV. Animal Versus Human Consciousness
14 Rethinking the Cognitive Abilities of Animals .............. 219
GARY STEINER
15 Assessing Evidence for Animal Consciousness: The
Question of Episodic Memory ................................ 231
PAULA DROEGE
16 What Are Animals Conscious Of? ............................. 246
ALAIN MORIN
Part V. Tailoring Representations to Audiences
17 Chimpanzees Attribute Beliefs? A New Approach to
Answering an Old Nettled Question .......................... 263
ROBERT W. LURZ
18 Minding the Animal in Contemporary Art ..................... 286
JESSICA ULRICH
19 Popular Beliefs and Understanding of the Dolphin Mind ...... 301
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 ............ 317
BRIAN M. LOWE
Part VI. Synthesis
21 Animal Ethics and Animals' Minds: Reflections .............. 333
JULIE A. SMITH AND ROBERT W. MITCHELL
Contributors ............................................... 357
Index ...................................................... 363
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