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Six Legs Better

A Cultural History of Myrmecology
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320 Seiten
Englisch
Johns Hopkins University Presserschienen am05.03.2007
Ants long have fascinated linguists, human sociologists, and even cyberneticians. At the end of the nineteenth century, ants seemed to be admirable models for human life and were praised for their work ethic, communitarianism, and apparent empathy. They provided a natural-theological lesson on the relative importance of humans within creation and inspired psychologists to investigate the question of instinct and its place in the life of higher animals and humans. By the 1930s, however, ants came to symbolize one of modernity's deepest fears: the loss of selfhood. Researchers then viewed the ant colony as an unthinking mass, easily ruled and slavishly organized. In this volume, Charlotte Sleigh uses specific representations of ants within the field of entomology from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries to explore the broader role of metaphors in science and their often unpredictable translations. Marking the centenary of the coining of "myrmecology" to describe the study of ants, Six Legs Better demonstrates the remarkable historical role played by ants as a node where notions of animal, human, and automaton intersect.mehr
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KlappentextAnts long have fascinated linguists, human sociologists, and even cyberneticians. At the end of the nineteenth century, ants seemed to be admirable models for human life and were praised for their work ethic, communitarianism, and apparent empathy. They provided a natural-theological lesson on the relative importance of humans within creation and inspired psychologists to investigate the question of instinct and its place in the life of higher animals and humans. By the 1930s, however, ants came to symbolize one of modernity's deepest fears: the loss of selfhood. Researchers then viewed the ant colony as an unthinking mass, easily ruled and slavishly organized. In this volume, Charlotte Sleigh uses specific representations of ants within the field of entomology from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries to explore the broader role of metaphors in science and their often unpredictable translations. Marking the centenary of the coining of "myrmecology" to describe the study of ants, Six Legs Better demonstrates the remarkable historical role played by ants as a node where notions of animal, human, and automaton intersect.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-8018-8445-0
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
FormatGenäht
Erscheinungsjahr2007
Erscheinungsdatum05.03.2007
Seiten320 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 162 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 25 mm
Gewicht553 g
Artikel-Nr.14122985

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Inhaltsverzeichnis
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Psychological Ants1. Evolutionary Myrmecology and the Natural History of the Human Mind2. A (Non-)Disciplinary Context for Evolutionary MyrmecologyPart II: Sociological Ants3. From Psychology to Sociology4. The Brave New World of Myrmecology5. The Generic Contexts of Natural History6. Writing Elite Natural History7. Ants in the Library: An InterludePart III: Communicational Ants8. The Macy Meanings of Meaning9. From Pheromones to SociobiologyConclusionNotesEssay on SourcesIndexmehr