Giving human traits to animals and objects, known as anthropomorphism, is a common practice in storytelling and advertising.

Why do we yell at our computer when it struggles to work? Why do some cars look like they're smiling? Why does your guitar seem free-spirited? This is because of our innate human tendency for ...

As humans, we love projecting our emotions on non-human things like animals, objects and weather events. I’m told the psychological term for this is anthropomorphism, which is difficult to say three ...

One morning back in the late 1990s, I was walking through the back streets of Drogheda, Ireland. The alleyways were strewn with litter. Amid the detritus, I spotted a tiny stuffed monkey, a casualty ...

Introduction: the significance of language in portraying animals -- Darwin's anthropomorphism -- Lifeworld and subjectivity: naturalists' portraits of animals -- The ethological constitution of ...

Essay on categorizing the representations of humans and animals on Central African musical instruments. Laurenty develops a four-part schema (page 48), which is based on whether the whole or a part of ...