[AI-Generated Summary]: Anthropologist Webb Keane explores the ethical bonds between humans and nonhumans in this examination of moral relationships across cultures. Drawing on fieldwork from South Asian animal rights activists to Japanese robot enthusiasts, the book challenges conventional boundaries of moral consideration, examining how our interactions with animals, machines, and deities shape ethical understanding. Through ethnographic stories including Yukon hunters negotiating with bears and AI systems serving as digital confessors, Keane argues that moral imagination extends beyond individual minds or societies to encompass our relationships with all beings we encounter.
- Author: Webb Keane
- Year: 2025
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- ISBN: 9780691270944