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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Animals and African ethics
  name:
    name part: Horsthemke, Kai
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 187 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "African ethics is primarily concerned with community and harmonious communal relationships. The claim is frequently made on behalf of African moral beliefs and customs that African society does not objectify and exploit nature and natural existents, unlike Western moral attitudes and practices. This book investigates whether this claim is correct by examining religious and philosophical thought, as well as traditional cultural practices in Africa. Through exploration of what kind of status is reserved for other-than-human animals in African ethics, Horsthemke argues that moral perceptions and attitudes on the African continent remain resolutely anthropocentric, or human-centred. Although values like ubuntu (humanness) and ukama (relationality) have been expanded to include nonhuman nature, animals have no rights, and human duties to them are almost exclusively 'indirect'. Animals and African Ethics concludes by asking whether those who, following their own liberation, continue to exploit and oppress other creatures, are not thereby contributing to their own dehumanization. "--
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction. Ethics On The African Continent -- 1. African Philosophy -- 2. Religion And Ethics In Africa -- 3. African Creation Myths And The Hierarchy Of Beings -- 4. The African Ritual Of Animal Slaughter -- 5. Traditional African Perceptions And Current Practices -- Taboos, Totemism And Spiritualism -- 6. Ubuntu/ Botho/ Hunhu And Non-Human Animals -- 7. Ukama And African Environmentalism -- 8. Animals And The Law In East, West And Southern Africa -- 9. Environmental Justice -- 10. From Anthropocentrism Towards A Non-Speciesist Africa?.
  note: Kai Horsthemke.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f------
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY / General
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY / Political
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY / Social
  subject:
    topic: Animal rights
    geographic: Africa
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
    geographic: Africa
  subject:
    topic: Communities
    geographic: Africa
  classification: HV4708 .H66 2015
  classification: 179/.3096
  classification: PHI000000 PHI005000 PHI019000 PHI034000
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave Macmillan animal ethics series
  identifier: 9781137504043 (hbk.)
  identifier: 1137504048 (hbk.)
  identifier: 2015013137
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150717
    record change date: 20170928133908.0
    record identifier: in00003589441
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng