{"product_id":"six-legs-better-charlotte-sleigh-9780801884450","title":"Six Legs Better: A Cultural History of Myrmecology","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnts long have fascinated linguists, human sociologists, and even cyberneticians. At the end of the nineteenth century, ants seemed to be admirable models for human life and were praised for their work ethic, communitarianism, and apparent empathy. They provided a natural-theological lesson on the relative importance of humans within creation and inspired psychologists to investigate the question of instinct and its place in the life of higher animals and humans. By the 1930s, however, ants came to symbolize one of modernity's deepest fears: the loss of selfhood. Researchers then viewed the ant colony as an unthinking mass, easily ruled and slavishly organized.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this volume, Charlotte Sleigh uses specific representations of ants within the field of entomology from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries to explore the broader role of metaphors in science and their often unpredictable translations. Marking the centenary of the coining of \"myrmecology\" to describe the study of ants, \u003ci\u003eSix Legs Better\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the remarkable historical role played by ants as a node where notions of animal, human, and automaton intersect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charlotte Sleigh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801884454\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801884450\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.36w x 0.98d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScitech Book News\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2007 pg. 51","brand":"Charlotte Sleigh","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48748343034111,"sku":"9780801884450","price":63.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/six-legs-better-charlotte-sleigh-9780801884450","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}