Animal stereotypes are used to describe, circumscribe and label people. They also serve to negotiate what counts as familiar and what is expelled as foreign. This article explores the composition of animal stereotypes and examines why they continue to influence the way humans understand themselves. Referring to dehumanising language in contemporary political discourse, anthropological theories of mimicry and representation as well as ethnological observations of human–animal relations, this article argues that if animals are regarded as intelligent and compassionate rather than irrational or violent, the debasing intent of animal stereotypes fails. While a deeper understanding of the mutual dependence of humans, non-humans and their environment is of academic and social interest alike, the projection of images of oneself onto animal others only highlights certain features, whilst leaving others in the dark.

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人与动物他者：再现、模仿与驯化

动物刻板印象被用来描述、限制和标记人。他们还负责协商什么是熟悉的，什么是陌生的。本文探讨了动物刻板印象的构成，并探讨了它们为何继续影响人类理解自己的方式。本文参考当代政治话语中的非人化语言、模仿和表征的人类学理论以及人与动物关系的民族学观察，认为如果动物被认为是聪明和富有同情心的，而不是非理性或暴力的，那么动物刻板印象的贬低意图失败。虽然对人类、非人类及其环境的相互依赖的更深入理解具有学术和社会意义，但将自己的形象投射到动物身上只会突出某些特征，而将其他动物置于黑暗之中。