The body we care for - Figures of Anthropo-zoo-genesis

Vinciane Despret

Body and Society

2004

20 páginas

40m

ISBN-1: 0

. Both, human and horse, are cause and effect of each
other’s movements. Both induce and are induced, affect and are affected. Both
embody each other’s mind. Shouldn’t we therefore suggest the same for Hans and
his questioners? If we can see, according to Pfungst’s hypothesis, how human
bodies influence the horse’s answer through his peculiar sensitivity and talent,
shouldn’t we also imagine the converse situation: the horse has taught the
humans, without their knowledge, the right gestures to (involuntarily) perform.