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Publication

1999 - Macmillan Press Ltd, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

42,750 words, Guess

Page Count

171 pages

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Description

This text argues that animals appear not just as biological creatures, but as vehicles of meaning for human imagination, mind and culture. Animal life may form the basis for an animalizing imagination that can enhance our cultural, religious and aesthetic sensibilities. This imagination is rooted in the pre-modern affective relationship between shamans and their familiars, but can be tracked to our post-modern ecological crisis, where we can reclaim a totemic identification with animals as signifiers of a new ecological understanding. This text argues that animals appear not just as biological creatures, but as vehicles of meaning for human imagination, mind and culture.

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Other Editions

  • The animalizing imagination: totemism, textuality and ecocriticismMacmillan Press Ltd1999-01-01

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