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Animals and African Ethics

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Kai Horsthemke

    1. University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

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Part of the book series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series (PMAES)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Ethics on the African Continent

    • Kai Horsthemke
    Pages 1-14

  3. African Philosophy

    • Kai Horsthemke
    Pages 15-29

  4. Religion and Ethics in Africa

    • Kai Horsthemke
    Pages 30-36

  5. African Creation Myths and the Hierarchy of Beings

    • Kai Horsthemke
    Pages 37-43

  6. The African Ritual of Animal Slaughter

    • Kai Horsthemke
    Pages 44-62

  7. Traditional African Perceptions and Current Practices — Taboos, Totemism and Spiritualism

    • Kai Horsthemke
    Pages 63-77

  8. Ubuntu/Botho/Hunhu and Nonhuman Animals

    • Kai Horsthemke
    Pages 78-92

  9. Ukama and African Environmentalism

    • Kai Horsthemke
    Pages 93-100

  10. Animals and the Law in East, West and Southern Africa

    • Kai Horsthemke
    Pages 101-117

  11. Environmental Justice

    • Kai Horsthemke
    Pages 118-146

  12. From Anthropocentrism towards a Non-Speciesist Africa

    • Kai Horsthemke
    Pages 147-156

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 157-187
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About this book

The claim is frequently made on behalf of African moral beliefs and practices that they do not objectify and exploit nature and natural existents like Western ethics does. This book investigates whether this is correct and what kind of status is reserved for other-than-human animals in African ethics.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    Kai Horsthemke

About the author

Kai Horsthemke is Associate Professor in the Wits School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, and Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, UK. Apart from animal rights, his research interests include African philosophy, indigenous knowledge (indigenous science, ethnomathematics, ethnomusicology), as well as humane and environmental education.

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