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Barbara's Public Speaking And Book NewsTWITTER FANS - Barbara tweets (a lot!). Follow her: @bjkingape
Barbara writes weekly at NPR's 13.7 Cosmos and Culture blog Barbara is appearing on the Diane Rehm show Tuesday, June 21 at 11am to discuss the ethics and the future of zoos Barbara's interview on animal grief with the BBC on Monday June 20 Barbara's new book is coming April 2017 from the University of Chicago Press: Personalities on the Plate: The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat How Animals Grieve, Barbara's 2013, is now translated into French, Japanese, Portuguese, and Hebrew; the French translation, Le Chagrin des Animaux, won this book prize The book can be ordered through Amazon, Barnes & Noble online, and The University of Chicago Press website. Barbara urges you to remember independent bookstores, also! Watch Barbara's 4-minute book video: For Dr. Marc Bekoff's thoughts on the book, please see here: Psychology Today If you're interested in inviting Barbara to give a public lecture, please send details to bjking09@gmail.com. BIOGRAPHY Barbara is emerita professor of anthropology at the College of William and Mary and a freelance science writer. Shared with her husband, Barbara's cat-rescue work brings her happiness every day. |
Selected WorksNonfiction
Why are animals so irresistible to us? Why do we live with and care so deeply about them? From the famous "art caves" of ice-age Europe, to the ancient villages where animals were first domesticated, to stories of apes, whales, dogs, and cats doing fascinating things today, King weaves together a scenario about the animal-human bond that encompasses our past, present and future.
Can scientists discover a prehistory of religion just as they have traced the evolution of technology, language, and art? What does compassion in chimpanzees, or burial patterns in our human ancestors and Neanderthals, tell us about the origins of religion? In Evolving God, named a Top Ten Religion Book for 2007 by the American Library Association, Barbara King explores these questions.
How do chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas-- the African apes -- communicate using body postures and gestures? Using her many years of experience studying these apes, Barbara King answers this question in a book that offers a new perspective on the evolution of language. |
