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How Animals Grieve【電子書籍】[ Barbara J. King ]

＜p＞From the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them. But scientists have long cautioned against such anthropomorphizing, arguing that it limits our ability to truly comprehend the lives of other creatures. Recently, however, things have begun to shift in the other direction, and anthropologist Barbara J. King is at the forefront of that movement, arguing strenuously that we canーand ＜em＞should＜/em＞ーattend to animal emotions. With ＜em＞How Animals Grieve＜/em＞, she draws our attention to the specific case of grief, and relates story after storyーfrom fieldsites, farms, homes, and moreーof animals mourning lost companions, mates, or friends.＜/p＞ ＜p＞?＜/p＞ ＜p＞King tells of elephants surrounding their matriarch as she weakens and dies, and, in the following days, attending to her corpse as if holding a vigil. A housecat loses her sister, from whom she's never before been parted, and spends weeks pacing the apartment, wailing plaintively. A baboon loses her daughter to a predator and sinks into grief. In each case, King uses her anthropological training to interpret and try to explain what we seeーto help us understand this animal grief properly, as something neither the same as nor wholly different from the human experience of loss.＜/p＞ ＜p＞?＜/p＞ ＜p＞The resulting book is both daring and down-to-earth, strikingly ambitious even as it’s careful to acknowledge the limits of our understanding. Through the moving stories she chronicles and analyzes so beautifully, King brings us closer to the animals with whom we share a planet, and helps us see our own experiences, attachments, and emotions as part of a larger web of life, death, love, and loss.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。

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