anthropomorphous
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an·thro·po·mor·phous
/ ˌan[unvoicedth]rəpəˈmôrfəs/
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adj.
(of a god, animal, or object) human in form or nature.
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Anthropomorphism and other figures of speech in James Joyce's Ulysses.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Dublin landscape. Analysing his anthropomorphism helps explain subjective transformations...feature of his subjective vision. Anthropomorphism is the projection of human characteristics...cries within him. (1) Analysing anthropomorphism as an outward projection of what...
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Critical anthropomorphism, animal suffering, and the ecological context. (section 3) (Animals, Science, and Ethics; includes American Veterinary Medical Association classification of adverse states in animals)
Magazine article from: The Hastings Center Report; 5/1/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...animal? Here, we examine ways of answering such questions, concentrating upon critical anthropomorphism. Critical Anthropomorphism Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics (including the projection of subjective states...
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Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism
Magazine article from: Environmental History; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. Edited by Lorraine Daston &...50. The original meaning of "anthropomorphism"-anthro (man) + morphos (change...heresy in some Christian sects. Anthropomorphism in its currently more common usage...
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A defense of anthropomorphism: comparing Coetzee and Gowdy.(J.M. Coetzee, Barbara Gowdy)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg); 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...animal sentience in human terms, anthropomorphism can be a valuable and sophisticated...revolve around the problems posed by anthropomorphism, the projection of the characteristics...the original meaning of the word "anthropomorphism" refers to the error of casting...
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What makes anthropomorphism natural: intuitive ontology and cultural representations.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 3/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...this 'continuity' hypothesis, anthropomorphism is widespread because it is intuitive...representations. The evidence: anthropomorphism as counter-intuitive In order to...implied by 'childhood animism' or anthropomorphism, it is necessary to have a broader...
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A Medieval Critique of Anthropomorphism: Ibn al-Jawzi's Kitab Akhbar as-Sifat, A Critical Edition of the Arabic Text.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; A Medieval Critique of Anthropomorphism: Ibn al-Jawzi's Kitab...interpretations that avoid anthropomorphism. In doing so, he proposes...from it, the debate over anthropomorphism was raging in Ibn al-Jawzi...
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Thinking With Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism
Magazine article from: Environmental History; 7/1/2005; ; 305 words
; ...With Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University...Investigates the changing patterns of anthropomorphism across different time periods and...Offers a sampling of the uses of anthropomorphism and its transformative effects on...
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Anthropomorphism and the evolution of cognition. (response to Pascal Boyer, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 2, p. 83, 1996)(includes reply)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 12/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...Pascal Boyer provides a persuasive argument for what makes anthropomorphism natural: the very fact that it is counter-intuitive...in other words, they are easy to grasp. Consequently anthropomorphism is a pervasive, perhaps universal, way of thinking...
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Analyzing Anthropomorphisms.(using anthropomorphic texts in science education)
Magazine article from: Science and Children; 11/1/2006; 700+ words
; ...for Science Literacy (1993), AAAS worries that the anthropomorphism embedded in most animal stories may be misleading many...primary students. To involve students in the analysis of anthropomorphisms, you will need a collection of nonfiction and fiction...
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Part spaniel, part canine puzzle: anthropomorphism in Woolf's Flush and Auster's Timbuktu.(Virginia Woolf, Flush: A Biography, Paul Auster)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg); 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...exploration of traditional and "new" literary anthropomorphism and the fascination, problems, and limitations...consciousness and deprived of its own agency, to a new anthropomorphism that views the animal as a separate and unknowable...
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anthropomorphism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
anthropomorphism [Gr.,=having human form...having human characteristics. Anthropomorphism also applies to the ascription...polytheistic. Although some degree of anthropomorphism is characteristic of nearly all...
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Anthropomorphism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Anthropomorphism (Gk., ‘of human form’). The attribution...prevailing sense of God underlying all appearance makes the occurrence of anthropomorphism deceptive: there is a real presence through the image, and thus...
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Le Dantec, Félix
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...with the precise language of chemistry, eliminating any anthropomorphism. His logic led him to Lamarckian principles of adaptation...facts obtained at second hand, his vigorous attacks on anthropomorphism, his passion for truth, his noble character, and his...
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philosophy and the body
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...for cosmological schemes. This is obvious in the overt anthropomorphism of ‘primitive’ cosmologies. Less...x2018;living’. However, the fixed point of anthropomorphism was located in the mystery of the life and death of the...
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religion
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...incorporated into a system of mythology and ritual. Sometimes they take on distinctively human characteristics (see anthropomorphism ). Beyond these more elementary forms of religious expression there are what are commonly called the "higher religions...
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