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[ecrea] Aesop's Anthropology: A Multispecies Approach, new e-book from Minnesota

Fri Nov 14 11:55:06 GMT 2014





I’m thrilled to announce the release of Aesop’s Anthropology, part of a new digital media effort from University of Minnesota Press. This work, operating in multiple platforms and published under a Creative Commons license, aims to theorize culture across species boundaries. Aesop’s features short essays that range from nonhuman forms of sociality to the ways “model organisms” function as modern fables. Please let me know what you think.



Aesop's Anthropology is a guide for thinking through the perplexing predicaments and encounters that arise as the line between human and nonhuman shifts in modern life. Recognizing that culture is not unique to humans, asks what we can learn about culture from other species.

Aesop's Anthropology is one of the first three works released in the University of Minnesota Press's new Forerunners: Ideas First initiative, along with The Anthrobscene, by Jussi Parikka, and Mediators, by Reinhold Martin. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.



John Hartigan
Director, Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies
Professor, Department of Anthropology
2201 Speedway, C3200
University of Texas, Austin
Austin, Tx, 78712-0303
512-232-9201

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/anthropology/faculty/hartigan

Blog: http://www.aesopsanthropology.com/blog/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/aesopsanthro









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