In the opening shots of L'Enfant Savauge we hear the voiceover of man as we gaze upon the wild child, while in The Jungle Book the role is reversed. What's at stake in the way in which Mowgli's animal other treats him as the object of study, what does this reversal say about qualities which we call human when it is animals which/that display paternal and authoritative traits often associated with the West's anthropological project?
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