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Elephants and Ethics: Toward a Morality of Coexistence
Christen (Ed Wemmer
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Description for Elephants and Ethics: Toward a Morality of Coexistence
Hardback. In addressing these issues from multiple perspectives, Elephants and Ethics promotes mutual understanding of the cultural, conservation, and economic difficulties at the root of the many troublesome human-elephant interactions and poses new questions about our responsibility toward these largest of land mammals. Editor(s): Wemmer, Christen; Christen, Catherine A. Num Pages: 512 pages, 31, 30 black & white illustrations, 1 maps. BIC Classification: JFFZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 193 x 264 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1070.
The entwined history of humans and elephants is fascinating but often sad. People have used elephants as beasts of burden and war machines, slaughtered them for their ivory, exterminated them as threats to people and ecosystems, turned them into objects of entertainment at circuses, employed them as both curiosities and conservation ambassadors in zoos, and deified and honored them in religious rites. How have such actions affected these pachyderms? What ethical and moral imperatives should humans follow to ensure that elephants are treated with dignity and saved from extinction? In Elephants and Ethics, Christen Wemmer and Catherine A. ... Read more
The entwined history of humans and elephants is fascinating but often sad. People have used elephants as beasts of burden and war machines, slaughtered them for their ivory, exterminated them as threats to people and ecosystems, turned them into objects of entertainment at circuses, employed them as both curiosities and conservation ambassadors in zoos, and deified and honored them in religious rites. How have such actions affected these pachyderms? What ethical and moral imperatives should humans follow to ensure that elephants are treated with dignity and saved from extinction? In Elephants and Ethics, Christen Wemmer and Catherine A. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801888182
SKU
V9780801888182
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Ref
99-34
About Christen (Ed Wemmer
Christen Wemmer is a fellow at the California Academy of Sciences and an emeritus scientist with the Smithsonian's National Zoological Park, where he previously served as director of the Conservation and Research Center. Catherine A. Christen, an environmental historian, is an academic training specialist and researcher at the Smithsonian National Zoo's Center for Conservation Education and Sustainability.
Reviews for Elephants and Ethics: Toward a Morality of Coexistence
[A] fascinating, saddening, but guardedly optimistic book. PsycCRITIQUES A fascinating history of human and elephant interactions. Midwest Book Review An important contribution.
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