"In these multidisciplinary essays, academic scholars and animal experts explore the nature of animal minds and the methods humans conventionally and unconventionally use to understand them. The collection features chapters by scholars working in psychology, sociology, history, philosophy, literary studies, and art, as well as chapters by and about people who live and work with animals, including the founder of a sanctuary for chickens, a fur trapper, a popular canine psychologist, a horse trainer, and an art photographer who captures everyday contact between humans and their animal companions."--Back cover.

Engaging Animal Minds : Matters of Perspective / Robert W. Mitchell and Julie A. Smith -- Living with Animals -- The Mental Life of Chickens as Observed Through Their Social Relationships / Karen Davis -- Tangible Affiliations : Photographic Representations of Touch Between Human and Animal Companions / Julia Schlosser -- Beaver Voices : Grey Owl and Interspecies Communication / Albert Braz -- Anthropomorphisms -- The Historical Animal Mind : "Sagacity" in Nineteenth-Century Britain / Rob Boddice -- Science of the Monkey Mind : Primate Penchants and Human Pursuits / Sara Waller -- Can Animals Make "Art"? Popular and Scientific Discourses About Expressivity and Cognition in Primates / Jane Desmond -- Embodiments and Interembodiments -- Toward a Privileging of the Nonverbal : Communication, Corporeal Synchronicity, and Transcendence in Humans and Horses / Gala Argent -- Thinking Like a Whale : Interdisciplinary Methods for the Study of Human-Animal Interactions / Traci Warkentin -- The Meaning of "Energy" in Cesar Millan's Discourse on Dogs / Julie A. Smith -- Inner Experience as Perception(like) with Attitude / Robert W. Mitchell. The Voice of the Living : Becoming-Artistic and the Creaturely Refrain in D.H. Lawrence's "Tortoise Shout" / Carrie Rohman -- Unique Attributes of the Elephant Mind : Perspectives on the Human Mind / Benjamin L. Hart and Lynette A. Hart -- Brains, Bodies, and Minds : Against a Hierarchy of Animal Faculties / David Dillard-Wright -- Animal Versus Human Consciousness -- Rethinking the Cognitive Abilities of Animals / Gary Steiner -- Assessing Evidence for Animal Consciousness : The Question of Episodic Memory / Paula Droege -- What Are Animals Conscious Of? / Alain Morin -- Tailoring Representations to Audiences -- Chimpanzees Attribute Beliefs? A New Approach to Answering an Old Nettled Question / Robert W. Lurz -- Minding the Animal in Contemporary Art / Jessica Ullrich -- Popular Beliefs and Understanding of the Dolphin Mind / Jessica Sickler, John Fraser, and Diana Reiss -- Perceiving the Minds of Animals : Sociological Warfare, the Social Imaginary, and Mediated Representations of Animals Shaping Human Understandings of Animals / Brian M. Lowe -- Synthesis -- Animal Ethics and Animals' Minds : Reflections / Julie A. Smith and Robert W. Mitchell.