Kay Milton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640415 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kay Milton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kay |
| FAMILY NAME | Milton |
| SIGNATURE | MILTON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 233 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Anthropomorphism or Egomorphism? The Perception of Non-human Persons by Human Ones
This chapter raises objections to the concept of ‘anthropomorphism’ as a tool for analysing how human animals understand non-human ones, and suggests that an alternative model ‘egomorphism’, might be more appropriate. The term ‘anthropomorphism’ is used in social science to describe some of the ways in which people act towards non-human animals. Evidence that intersubjectivity is generated with non-human beings also comes from countless everyday …
Meanings, Feelings and Human Ecology
This chapter addresses a problem in the anthropological study of emotions which has been identified by several scholars as a major challenge, the problem of how to develop an approach which will take account of both the biological and the cultural aspects of emotion. It shows that scholars in several disciplines have observed that emotions are both biological and cultural, and that this has led to two different kinds of approach to the study of e…
Mixed Emotions
FINAL Introduction: Emotions in anthropology Maruska Svasek, Queen's University Belfast Chapter 1: Meaning, feeling and human ecology Kay Milton, Queen's Universiy Belfast Chapter 2: Darwin on the expression of the emotions: the eclipse of a research programme Peter Bowler, Queen's University Belfast Chapter 3: Being there: emotion and imagination in anthropologists' encounters Elizabeth Tonkin, Professor Emerita, Queen's University Belfast Chapt…
Tony Angell
The Intersections of Biological Diversity and Cultural Diversity
There is an emerging recognition that the diversity of life comprises both biological and cultural diversity.In the past, however, it has been common to make divisions between nature and culture, arising partly out of a desire to control nature.The range of interconnections between biological and cultural diversity are reflected in the growing variety of environmental sub-disciplines that have emerged.In this article, we present ideas from a numb…
Science and Personhood on the Farm
Cet article examine la relation entre science et subjectivité au Royaume-Uni, spécifiquement en relation avec la crise de la fièvre aphteuse de 2001. L'élevage intensif nie que les animaux soient des « personnes », c'est-à-dire des êtres avec des pensées et des sentiments. Par contre de nombreux animaux, y compris des animaux d'élevage, sont traités comme des personnes individuelles dans la vie de tous les jours. Pendant la crise de la fièvre aph…
Fear for the future
Emotion (or Life, the Universe, Everything)
Emotions are fundamental to human life; they define its quality and motivate action. In the past, social scientists who have studied emotions have treated them as biological, cultural or social phenomena. These approaches have tended to fall on either side of the culturally recognised division between nature and culture, and so have failed to recognise that emotions bridge this division, that they are thought of as both biological and cultural, a…
Environmentalism
Loving Nature
As the full effects of human activity on Earth's life-support systems are revealed by science, the question of whether we can change, fundamentally, our relationship with nature becomes increasingly urgent. Just as important as an understanding of our environment, is an understanding of ourselves, of the kinds of beings we are and why we act as we do. In Loving Nature Kay Milton considers why some people in Western societies grow up to be nature …
Environmentalism
Environmentalism and Cultural Theory
At the same time, the concept of `culture', once the property of anthropologists has gained wide currency among social scientist. These trends have taken place against a growing perception, among specialist and public, of the global nature of contemporary issues. This book shows how an understanding of culture can throw light on the way environmental issues are perceived and interpreted, both by local communities and within the contemporary globa…
Ecologies
Women's voices from the rainforest
Environmentalism
Pokoot Religion
Greenwar
Interpreting Environmental Policy
Any discerning participant in the environmental debate very quickly realises that there is more at issue than the question of how to solve environmental problems. There are underlying disagreements over how problems are defined, their degree of seriousness, who is responsible for solving them, and how amenable they are to solution. These disagreements run deep; they are based on different moral principles, different values, different assumptions …
Anthropology of the Future
Space, Text and Gender
As well as being the first major anthropological study of the Marakwet, Space, Text and Gender strikingly illustrates how the idea of a cultural text can aid the analysis of ethnographic material. Dr Moore focuses in particular on the relationship between the organisation of household space and gender relations, and on the ways that relationship is changing as a result of wage labour and education. She does not, refreshingly, treat household spac…
Discourse Strategies
Male Bias in Anthropology
The Intersections of Biological Diversity and Cultural Diversity
There is an emerging recognition that the diversity of life comprises both biological and cultural diversity.In the past, however, it has been common to make divisions between nature and culture, arising partly out of a desire to control nature.The range of interconnections between biological and cultural diversity are reflected in the growing variety of environmental sub-disciplines that have emerged.In this article, we present ideas from a numb…
Environmentalism
Ecologies
Environmentalism and Cultural Theory
At the same time, the concept of `culture', once the property of anthropologists has gained wide currency among social scientist. These trends have taken place against a growing perception, among specialist and public, of the global nature of contemporary issues. This book shows how an understanding of culture can throw light on the way environmental issues are perceived and interpreted, both by local communities and within the contemporary globa…
Male Bias in Anthropology
Greenwar
Environmentalism
Women's voices from the rainforest
Science and Personhood on the Farm
Cet article examine la relation entre science et subjectivité au Royaume-Uni, spécifiquement en relation avec la crise de la fièvre aphteuse de 2001. L'élevage intensif nie que les animaux soient des « personnes », c'est-à-dire des êtres avec des pensées et des sentiments. Par contre de nombreux animaux, y compris des animaux d'élevage, sont traités comme des personnes individuelles dans la vie de tous les jours. Pendant la crise de la fièvre aph…
Male Bias in Anthropology
Discourse Strategies
Space, Text and Gender
As well as being the first major anthropological study of the Marakwet, Space, Text and Gender strikingly illustrates how the idea of a cultural text can aid the analysis of ethnographic material. Dr Moore focuses in particular on the relationship between the organisation of household space and gender relations, and on the ways that relationship is changing as a result of wage labour and education. She does not, refreshingly, treat household spac…
Anthropology of the Future
Interpreting Environmental Policy
Any discerning participant in the environmental debate very quickly realises that there is more at issue than the question of how to solve environmental problems. There are underlying disagreements over how problems are defined, their degree of seriousness, who is responsible for solving them, and how amenable they are to solution. These disagreements run deep; they are based on different moral principles, different values, different assumptions …
Pokoot Religion
Greenwar
Environmentalism
Women's voices from the rainforest
Ecologies
Environmentalism and Cultural Theory
At the same time, the concept of `culture', once the property of anthropologists has gained wide currency among social scientist. These trends have taken place against a growing perception, among specialist and public, of the global nature of contemporary issues. This book shows how an understanding of culture can throw light on the way environmental issues are perceived and interpreted, both by local communities and within the contemporary globa…
Environmentalism
Loving Nature
As the full effects of human activity on Earth's life-support systems are revealed by science, the question of whether we can change, fundamentally, our relationship with nature becomes increasingly urgent. Just as important as an understanding of our environment, is an understanding of ourselves, of the kinds of beings we are and why we act as we do. In Loving Nature Kay Milton considers why some people in Western societies grow up to be nature …
Environmentalism
Emotion (or Life, the Universe, Everything)
Emotions are fundamental to human life; they define its quality and motivate action. In the past, social scientists who have studied emotions have treated them as biological, cultural or social phenomena. These approaches have tended to fall on either side of the culturally recognised division between nature and culture, and so have failed to recognise that emotions bridge this division, that they are thought of as both biological and cultural, a…
Fear for the future
The Intersections of Biological Diversity and Cultural Diversity
There is an emerging recognition that the diversity of life comprises both biological and cultural diversity.In the past, however, it has been common to make divisions between nature and culture, arising partly out of a desire to control nature.The range of interconnections between biological and cultural diversity are reflected in the growing variety of environmental sub-disciplines that have emerged.In this article, we present ideas from a numb…
Science and Personhood on the Farm
Cet article examine la relation entre science et subjectivité au Royaume-Uni, spécifiquement en relation avec la crise de la fièvre aphteuse de 2001. L'élevage intensif nie que les animaux soient des « personnes », c'est-à-dire des êtres avec des pensées et des sentiments. Par contre de nombreux animaux, y compris des animaux d'élevage, sont traités comme des personnes individuelles dans la vie de tous les jours. Pendant la crise de la fièvre aph…
Tony Angell
Anthropomorphism or Egomorphism? The Perception of Non-human Persons by Human Ones
This chapter raises objections to the concept of ‘anthropomorphism’ as a tool for analysing how human animals understand non-human ones, and suggests that an alternative model ‘egomorphism’, might be more appropriate. The term ‘anthropomorphism’ is used in social science to describe some of the ways in which people act towards non-human animals. Evidence that intersubjectivity is generated with non-human beings also comes from countless everyday …
Meanings, Feelings and Human Ecology
This chapter addresses a problem in the anthropological study of emotions which has been identified by several scholars as a major challenge, the problem of how to develop an approach which will take account of both the biological and the cultural aspects of emotion. It shows that scholars in several disciplines have observed that emotions are both biological and cultural, and that this has led to two different kinds of approach to the study of e…
Mixed Emotions
FINAL Introduction: Emotions in anthropology Maruska Svasek, Queen's University Belfast Chapter 1: Meaning, feeling and human ecology Kay Milton, Queen's Universiy Belfast Chapter 2: Darwin on the expression of the emotions: the eclipse of a research programme Peter Bowler, Queen's University Belfast Chapter 3: Being there: emotion and imagination in anthropologists' encounters Elizabeth Tonkin, Professor Emerita, Queen's University Belfast Chapt…
Sociology (14 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (4 works) · Environmentalism (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)