How to make a sociology of animals?

How to make sociology without words, without humans, without articulated language? By observing animals as social subjects, this reflection invites us to shift our gaze, to reexamine our methods, our categories... and our place among the living.

Vaches, sauercas, elephants, gorillas, hyenas, orcas and baboons are some of the societies addressed in the book, which draws on the methods of participating observation and critical anthropomorphism which consists of "getting into the skin of an animal." Based on examples from the human and animal worlds, Florent Kohler systematizes and clearly exposes the stakes of a new approach: that of an animal sociology. 的 Read more about the article Anim…