Definition of "personhood"

[Animals] are conscious; they are subjectively aware; they have interests; they can suffer. No characteristic other than sentience is required for personhood.

2008, Gary L. Francione, Animals as Persons

These examples reveal that the shared personhood of hunters and prey was mutually comprehensible, such that hunters could see the animalness of themselves and the humanness of prey, and prey could see the humanness of themselves […]

2014, Christopher Watts, Relational Archaeologies: Humans, Animals, Things, page 101