Zoo Studies
A New Humanities
1. Auflage
Erschienen am 19. Juni 2019
361 Seiten
978-0-7735-5815-1 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
An interdisciplinary collection that examines zoos from historical, philosophical, social, and cultural perspectives.
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McDonald Tracy:
Tracy McDonald is associate professor of history at McMaster University.Vandersommers Daniel:
Daniel Vandersommers is assistant teaching professor at the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities at Ball State University.Tracy McDonald is associate professor of history at McMaster University. Daniel Vandersommers is assistant teaching professor at the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities at Ball State University.
Tracy McDonald is associate professor of history at McMaster University.Vandersommers Daniel:
Daniel Vandersommers is assistant teaching professor at the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities at Ball State University.Tracy McDonald is associate professor of history at McMaster University. Daniel Vandersommers is assistant teaching professor at the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities at Ball State University.
Inhalt
- Cover
- ZOO STUDIES
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Psychotic Humans, Psychotic Animals: The Zoo and the Mental Hospital, 1656-1794
- 2 The Antelope Collectors
- 3 Failed Zoo Experiments: Primatology, Aeronautics, and the Animality of "Modern" Science, 1891-1903
- 4 Sculpting Dinah with the Blunt Tools of the Historian
- 5 Stereoscopic Animals: Spectatorship, Kodiak Bears, and the Keystone Animal Set
- 6 "Try Telling That to the Polar Bears": Rationing and Resistance at the Wartime Zoo
- 7 Gust (ca 1952-1988), or a History from Below of the Changing Zoo
- 8 Child Stars at the Zoo: The Rise and Fall of Polar Bear Knut
- 9 Pandas and the Reproduction of Race and Heterosexuality in the Zoo
- 10 Flying Penguins in Japan's Northernmost Zoo
- 11 Al Gore, Blackfish, and Me: Eco-activist Progress and Prospects for the Future
- 12 Reorienting the Space of Containment, or from Zoosphere to Noösphere and Beyond
- 13 Zoomorphic Bodies: Moving and Being Moved by Animals
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
