How do we live ethical lives alongside others? A fascinating mind-expanding exploration of our
moral universe We have always lived with ethically significant others whether they are the
pets we keep the gods we believe in or the machines we are endowing with life. How should we
treat them as our world changes? In Animals Robots Gods acclaimed anthropologist Webb Keane
provides a new vision of ethics defined less by our minds religion or society and more by
our interactions with those around us. Drawing on ground-breaking research by fieldworkers
around the world he explores the underpinnings of our moral universe. Along the way we
investigate the ethical dilemmas of South Asian animal rights activists Balinese cockfighters
Japanese robot fanciers -- even macho cowboys. We meet a hunter in the Yukon who explains his
prey generously gives itself up to him a cancer sufferer in Thailand who sees his tumour as a
reincarnated ox a computer that gets you to confess your anxieties as if you were on the
psychiatrist's couch. With charm wit and insight Keane offers us a better understanding of
our doubts and certainties showing how centuries of conversations between us and non-humans
inform our conceptions of morality and will continue to guide us in the age of AI and beyond.
