
The Authentic Animal
Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy
Dave Madden(Author)
Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S. (Publisher)
Published on 24. December 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-250-01472-6 (ISBN)
Description
Why would someone create or own the mounted skin of a dead animal? That's the question Dave Madden explores in "The Authentic Animal". He begins with the life story of Carl Akeley, father of modern taxidermy, who started by stuffing a canary and ended with creating the Akeley Hall of African Mammals at The American Museum of Natural History. To get a first-hand glimpse at this world, Madden travels to the World Taxidermy Championships, the garage workplaces of people who mount freeze-dried pets for bereaved owners and the classrooms of a taxidermy academy where students stretch deer pelts over foam bases. On his travels he looks at the forms taxidermy takes - hunting trophies, museum dioramas, roadside novelties, pet memorials - and considers what taxidermy has to tell us about human-animal relationships.
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Language
English
Place of publication
California
United States
Publishing group
Griffin Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
407 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-250-01472-6 (9781250014726)
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Person
DAVE MADDEN is a professor at The University of Alabama. He lives in Tuscaloosa and co-edits The Cupboard, a quarterly pamphlet. The Authentic Animal is his first book.