The Metaphysics of Apes : Negotiating the Animal-Human Boundary (Paperback)

Preface; Introduction; Part I. Ambiguous Apes: 1. Traditional views of apes; 2. The discovery of apes and early hominids; 3. Citizens and animals; Part II. Crafting the Primate Order: 4. Homo sylvestris; 5. The primate order; 6. Separate again; 7. Speaking apes; Part III. Up From the Ape: 8. 'A grim and grotesque procession'; 9. The monstrous other within; 10. Narrative and paradox; Part IV. Homo's Humanness: 11. The earliest homo; 12. 'Ancients' and 'Moderns'; Part V. 'Symbolic Man' in Ethnology: 13. A discipline's identity; 14. Biological approaches rejected; Part VI. Pan Sapiens?: 15. Fierce or gentle; 16. Tools, mirrors, symbols; 17. Ape and human rights; Part VII. Beyond Dualism: 18. An epistemological reminder; 19. Rethinking dichotomies; Bibliography.