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Zoo studies : a new humanities /

"Do both the zoo and the mental hospital induce psychosis, as humans are treated as animals and animals are treated as humans? How have we looked at animals in the past, and how do we look at them today? How have zoos presented themselves, and their purpose, over time? In response to the emerge...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McDonald, Tracy, 1966- (Editor ), Vandersommers, Daniel, 1984- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Daniel Vandersommers and Tracy McDonald
  • Psychotic humans, psychotic animals: the zoo and the mental hospital, 1656-1794 / Matthew Senior
  • The Antelope collectors / Nigel Rothfels
  • Failed zoo experiments: primatology, aeronautics, and the animality of "Modern" science, 1891-1903 / Daniel Vandersommers
  • Sculpting Dinah with the blunt tools of the historian / Tracy McDonald
  • Stereoscopic animals: spectatorship, Kodiak Bears, and the Keystone Animal Set / Zeb Tortorici
  • "Try telling that to the Polar Bears": rationing and resistance at the wartime zoo / John Kinder
  • Gust (ca 1952-1988), or a history from below of the changing zoo / Violette Pouillard
  • Child stars at the zoo: the rise and fall of Polar Bear Knut / Guro Flinterud
  • Pandas and the reproduction of race and heterosexuality in the zoo / Marianna Szczygielska
  • Flying penguins in Japan's northernmost zoo / Takashi Ito
  • Al Gore, Blackfish, and me: eco-activist progress and prospects for the future / Randy Malamud
  • Reorienting the space of containment, or from zoosphere to Noösphere and beyond / Ron Broglio
  • Zoomorphic bodies: moving and being moved by animals / Jonathan Osborn.