Shane Saunderson is a Research Fellow with the Human Futures Studio. He is a former Vanier Canada Scholar. University of Toronto provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA.

As humans, we love projecting our emotions on non-human things like animals, objects and weather events. I’m told the psychological term for this is anthropomorphism, which is difficult to say three ...

Introduction: the significance of language in portraying animals -- Darwin's anthropomorphism -- Lifeworld and subjectivity: naturalists' portraits of animals -- The ethological constitution of ...

Essay on categorizing the representations of humans and animals on Central African musical instruments. Laurenty develops a four-part schema (page 48), which is based on whether the whole or a part of ...