Humaness

Excavating Humanness along the Human Animal Frontier. The human-nonhuman animal Frontier marks the interchange between human and animal, culture and nature, the social and the natural. This powerfully symbolic site has traditionally been structured via religion-based ideas of humanity's origins, that in the West have been used to maintain a strictly impermeable Frontier: humans, created in God's own image and blessed with a soul on one side, on the other the senseless, soulless beast.