The April issue of the journal Anthropology Today is out. This issue begins with a guest editorial by Jonathan Benthall in which he explores reasons why anthropologists, who have studied most other social movements including environmentalism, have focused so little attention on the animal liberation and rights movement. The editorial is prompted by a 2006 article by Agustin Fuentes on “The Humanity of Animals and the Animality of Humans” published in the journal American Anthropologist.
UBC Library subscribes to the electronic editions of both journals. You can read the articles online by clicking the link in the citations below:
Benthall, J. (2007). Animal liberation and rights. Anthropology Today 23 (2), 1–3.
Fuentes, A. (2006). The Humanity of Animals and the Animality of Humans: A View from Biological Anthropology Inspired by J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello. American Anthropologist 108 (1), 124-132.
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