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  • How Animals Grieve

    by Barbara J. King ...
    "A touching and provocative exploration of the latest research on animal minds and animal emotions" from the renowned anthropologist and author ( The Washington Post).Scientists have long cautioned against anthropomorphizing animals, 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Evolving God

    A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion

    by Barbara J. King ...
    The author of How Animals Grieve "contends that religion . . . is a consequence of primate evolution" in this "brilliant book" ( Booklist, starred review).Religion has been a central part of human experience since at least the dawn of recorded history. The gods change, as do the rituals, but the underlying desire remains—a desire to belong to something larger, greater, most lasting than our mortal ... Read more

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  • Personalities on the Plate

    The Lives & Minds of Animals We Eat

    by Barbara J. King ...
    In recent years, scientific advances in our understanding of animal minds have led to major changes in how we think about, and treat, animals in zoos and aquariums. The general public, it seems, is slowly coming to understand that animals like apes, elephants, and dolphins have not just brains, but complicated inner and social lives, and that we need to act accordingly.Yet that realization hasn't ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Animals' Best Friends

    Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild

    by Barbara J. King ...
    "King's Animals' Best Friends is the most comprehensive exploration I've read of the complex relationship between the human and nonhuman, full of great insights and practical information."—Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times Book Review, "By the Book"Finalist for the 2021 Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental LiteratureAs people come to understand more about animals' inner lives—the intricacies of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • We All Feel

    Understanding Animal Grief and Love

    by Barbara J. King ...
    Series series Chicago Shorts
    From the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them, though scientists have long cautioned against such anthropomorphizing. 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—and should—attend to animal emotions. In ... Read more

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  • Anthropology Beyond Culture

    Edited by Richard G. Fox, Barbara J. King ...
    Series series Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series
    Culture is a vexed concept within anthropology. From their earliest studies, anthropologists have often noted the emotional attachment of people to their customs, even in cases where this loyalty can make for problems. Do anthropologists now suffer the same kind of disability with respect to their continuing emotional attachment to the concept of culture? This book considers the state of the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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    Animals' Best Friends

    Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild

    by Barbara J. King ...
    Narrated by Karen White ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 46 min

    As people come to understand more about animals' inner lives we feel a growing compassion, a desire to better their lives. But how do we translate this compassion into helping other creatures, both those that are and are not our pets? Bringing together the latest science with heartfelt storytelling, Animals' Best Friends reveals the opportunities we have in everyday life to help animals in our ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook