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

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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