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What makes us human? What, if anything, sets us apart from all other creatures? Ever since Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the answer to these questions has pointed to our own intrinsic animal nature. Yet the idea that, in one way or another, our humanity is entangled with the non-human has a much longer and more venerable history. In the West, it goes all the way back to classical antiquity. This grippingly written and provocative book boldly reveals how the ancient world mobilised concepts of 'the animal' and 'animality' to conceive of the human in a variety of illuminating ways. Through ten stories about marvelous mythical beings - from the Trojan Horse to the Cyclops, and from Androcles' lion to the Minotaur - Julia Kindt unlocks fresh ways of thinking about humanity that extend from antiquity to the present and that ultimately challenge our understanding of who we really are.

Animals --- Animals, Mythical --- Animals, Mythica --- Mythology, Greek. --- Mythology, Roman. --- Animals and civilization --- Mythology --- History.

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Animals in literature.

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Travailler dans un grand zoo rempli d'animaux exotiques : beaucoup en rêvent mais pour Tim Bouts, vétérinaire de zoo renommé, c'est une réalité quotidienne. Dans son Journal d'un vétérinaire, il vous emmène dans les coulisses de cette vie passionnante, du Zoo de Londres et de Pairi Daiza à la Maison des Pandas du cheikh du Qatar.Un lion ayant attrapé le Covid, un hippopotame atteint de tuberculose, un troupeau d'éléphants souffrant d'herpès... Dans ces histoires, vous ferez connaissance avec les patients variés de Tim et leurs maladies diverses. Parfois, les anecdotes font chaud au coeur, comme la naissance du premier bébé panda belge. D'autres accélèrent le rythme cardiaque, comme l'évasion de deux chimpanzés. Et certaines sont profondément émouvantes, comme la perte de cette mère morse, morte avec son petit en le mettant au monde.Tim se confie également sur l'impact émotionnel de la vie de vétérinaire. Il parle ouvertement du recours à l'euthanasie dans les zoos, de la pression des paparazzis autour des pandas ou des relations particulières entre humains et animaux. Après avoir lu ce livre, vous verrez sans doute le monde des animaux sauvages sous un autre angle !

Animals, Zoo. --- Animals, Wild. --- Animaux de zoo. --- Animaux sauvages.

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After describing and explaining the significance of animal sacrifice in a typical Tamil village goddess festival, this chapter considers the debates surrounding the passing of the Madras Animals and Birds Sacrifices Prohibition Act 1950 and addresses the puzzling issue of its non-enforcement. Why did Chief Minister Jayalalitha suddenly insist upon implementing the Act more than 50 years later, and why did she so quickly change her mind? These legislative and policy reversals are set against a background of tensions between the competing visions of religiosity held by reformist, urbanised, generally high-caste Hindus and their traditionally minded, rural, generally lower-caste counterparts. When ruling on such issues the higher Indian courts display strong reformist tendencies, further reinforced in recent years by the growing influence of the extreme brand of reformism known generically as Hindutva. The political and legal dimensions of these struggles have emerged even more clearly in the more recent jallikattu (bull-taming) controversy.

Animals --- Animal sacrifice. --- Religious aspects.

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Animal sacrifices are commonly practised in Himachal Pradesh on various occasions, including public festivals at the district level. Over recent years criticism of the practice has increased and some cases have been brought before the court. This chapter focuses on three court cases that were jointly decided in 2014 by the Himachal Pradesh High Court, where the judge ruled a total ban on animal sacrifice in the state of Himachal Pradesh. The case is still pending at the Supreme Court which means that it may potentially have an impact at national level. I first consider the context of this controversy, and the official and unofficial discourses of those involved in the case. Based on the court file, newspapers and ethnographic data, I then analyse the judicial handling of the case, which refers to legal, ritual, or reformist arguments or to animal welfare. The last section draws a comparison with a case concerning animal sacrifice in the Santeria religion, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, in order to bring out differences in the legal approaches in the two cases despite being both grounded in common law. It shows how, contrary to the legal handling of this issue in the Santeria case where the main concern is to protect religious freedom, in the Himachal Pradesh case the judge explicitly and repeatedly appealed to the role of the court in defining religion (as opposed to superstition), and to the court's responsibility in favouring 'moral progress' and promoting religious reforms.

Animals --- Animal sacrifice. --- Religious aspects.