{"id":765,"date":"2022-08-17T15:05:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T13:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cepam.cnrs.fr\/sites\/zoomathia\/?p=765"},"modified":"2022-08-17T15:09:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T13:09:38","slug":"call-for-papers-the-edges-of-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cepam.cnrs.fr\/sites\/zoomathia\/2022\/08\/17\/call-for-papers-the-edges-of-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for papers: The edges of species"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Editorial committee: J\u00e9r\u00e9my Cl\u00e9ment (Universit\u00e9 Paris Nanterre) et Mathieu\u00a0Engerbeaud\u00a0(Aix-Marseille Universit\u00e9)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greek and Roman mythologies are populated by hybrid creatures borrowing physical characteristics from both humans and animals, as illustrated by the well-known examples of the Sphinx, the Faun, or the Minotaur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These imaginary hybridisations cross the permeable boundary that separates humans from animals. The affirmation of human exceptionality progressively allowed Greek philosophy to raise and isolate Man within the animal kingdom. Nevertheless, ancient and medieval literature, ethnography and zoology continued to question the interspecific boundaries not as a radical dissociation but as a porous limit, a grey zone with multiple gradients of humanity and animality, of which mythological hybridity is only one manifestation.
For this eighth issue, the authors are invited to question the boundaries between non-human animal species, but also between the animal and human species. Several approaches to the subject can be considered:<\/p>\n\n\n\n