ABSTRACT
Through different areas and theoretical paths, some authors linked to Social Sciences reflect on the divisions that characterize modernity, such as nature and culture, human and non-human and humanity and animality. In dialogue with the reflections promoted by these authors, Brazilian Anthropology has shaped a new field of studies entitled “human-animal relations”. From this set of discussions, the objective of the article is to analyze the mobilization of animal advocates, asking how the questioning of human exclusivism triggered by these actors takes the form of a political project. To this end, I analyzed the content of texts and lectures by defenders who claim moral and legal equality between humans and animals. And it was possible to observe that these actors activate the principles of humanism that sanctify human life in order to make animals involved with justice and morals.
KEYWORDS:
Humanism; animal law; sociology and moral anthropology; human-animal relations