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Record Nr.

UNINA9910309953403321

Autore

Mäekivi Nelly

Titolo

Animal Umwelten in a Changing World : : Zoosemiotic Perspectives / / Nelly Mäekivi, Morten Tønnessen, Kristin Armstrong Oma . Volume 18.0

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tartu, : University of Tartu Press, 2016

Tartu : , : University of Tartu Press, , 2016

ISBN

9789949772810

9789949772803

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 pages)

Collana

Tartu semiotics library, , 1406-4278 ; ; 18

Disciplina

591.59

Soggetti

Semiotics / semiology

Animals & society

Animal communication

Human-animal communication

Semiotics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The book raises semiotic questions of human-animal relations: what is the semiotic character of different species, how humans endow animals with meaning, and how animal sign exchange and communication has coped with environmental change. The book takes a zoosemiotic approach and considers different species as being integrated with the environment via their specific umwelt or subjective perceptual world. The authors elaborate J. v. Uexküll's concept of umwelt to make it applicable for analyzing complex and dynamical interactions between animals, humans, environment and culture. The opening chapters of the book present a framework for philosophical, historical, epistemological and methodological aspects of zoosemiotic research. These initial considerations are followed by specific case studies: on human-animal interactions in zoological gardens, communication in the teams of visually disabled persons and guiding dogs, semiotics of the animal condition in philosophy, historical changes in the role of animals in human households, the semiotics of predation, cultural



perception of novel species, and other topics. The authors belong to the research group in zoosemiotics and human-animal relations based in the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu in Estonia, and in the University of Stavanger in Norway.