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December 1, 2014

Animals in History

I have never been a willing cat owner. As long as I can remember, our family cat-pets have always been involuntary additions, unwanted and dropped off. When there aren’t any no-kill shelters to take them in, and no voluntary kitty … Continue reading →

saraevenson Historical Methods Assignment, History 5104

December 1, 2014

Animals Equal Agency

In this week’s readings, I was upset by the many different memories that came to mind as I read. I have had many different animals in my life from dogs, cats, hamsters, horses, cows, goats, pigs, bulls, chickens, and even a hermit crab, each of who had a great impact on my life. I find […]

Tiny Week 2: History past: Historical Thinking/Historiography

November 30, 2014

Human Exceptionalism

Brett Walker argues that humans should rejoin the animal kingdom, or at least admit that they could never leave a group with which they belong,…

davidatkins agency, animal kingdom, Atkins, biology, History, Power Relationships, Walker

November 30, 2014

Animals as subjects

The readings this week argues animals have their agency and thus can be subjects of history from the perspective of animals’ life world, language, military partnership. Erica Fudge recovered cows’ order of their life world; Susan Pearson discusses the changing concept of language and mind to illustrate animals’ communication. Brett Walker, Chris Pearson and David […]

hungyin

November 29, 2014

Lying down with the dogs

“Because the individual, narrowly restricted by his senses and power of concentration, never perceives more than a tiny patch of the vast tapestry of events, deeds, and words which form the destinies of a group, and because, moreover, he possesses an immediate awareness of only his own mental state, all knowledge of mankind, to whatever […]

Carmen Bolt

November 29, 2014

Agency, Intentionality, Dogs, Cats, and the Black Death Fleas

Do animals have agency? This is the question being asked this week; whether animals can truly be historical actors, or if they they better assessed…

Claire G.

November 29, 2014

“Who Are We?”: Animals, History, Ethics, and Questions of Inclusion

Side by side with the question of animals and history are the question of ethical inclusion in general, and the conception of the ethical position of animals in particular. Historian Gary David Shaw’s idea of “we” as a limiting principle in which those writing history decide which entities are ‘”…enough like us to count’” mirrors […]

picasso13

November 29, 2014

Rosie, Buddy, Agency and History

“(Animals) permeate our history and we theirs: tug at the threads and our stories, woven as they are into the same tightly knit tapestry, will not disentwine.”[i] Animals permeate my personal history. And as such, I love this quote by … Continue reading →

faithskiles

November 26, 2014

So…Um…Language. Huh.

Early in Susan Pearson’s article “Speaking Bodies, Speaking Minds: Animals, Language, History,” she brings up an interesting point about the “letter-writer” versus Ms. Stowe: they each had a different view of what “language” actually is. Further in, Pearson discusses the Continue reading →

Kate Good

November 26, 2014

Animals, Agency, and History

I was hoping I would have something profound and poignant to say for my last (maybe?) post. However, as I anticipate good old fashioned Turkey Day tomorrow, I am not feeling too profound and my Thanksgiving break mind is feeling utterly not creative and fully on vacation. Nevertheless, I do feel I can still do […]

laura

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  • Comment on Animals, Agency, and History by Tiny December 2, 2014
    Hey Laura, After hearing about how you plan on writing about the agency of dogs in the Great War, I now have a better understanding and grasp of your subject matter. I am a little surprised to read that you are questioning animals having agency in hist... Continue reading →
    Tiny
  • Comment on Rosie, Buddy, Agency and History by Tiny December 2, 2014
    Hi Faith, As usual you provided a great piece of writing in my opinion. I always look forward to your posts because they seem to make me think back to personal experiences of my own in many cases. In this post, I was taken back to many different memories of all of my four legged […]
    Tiny
  • Comment on Human Exceptionalism by Tiny December 2, 2014
    Hey David, I was glad to see that I was not the only one in the class that was wondering about animals and their agency or interaction with humans. This week's reading were very eye opening, as I had never really looked at the theory that we were just animals ourselves, having evolved to our […]
    Tiny
  • Comment on Lying down with the dogs by Claire G. December 2, 2014
    Hi Carmen, So do you see agency as a continuum, with natural disasters, urban landscapes, and other non-living shapers of history on one end and humans on the other? Claire Continue reading →
    Claire G.
  • Comment on Animals in History by Claire G. December 2, 2014
    Hi Sara, I was also pleased that we did this reading after "On Deep History and the Brain," because integrating animals into the study of history requires interdisciplinarity including psychology and the natural sciences. What do you think about how both week's readings position people in relation to other beings and forces? (Also, I think […]
    Claire G.

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