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Taxidermic signs : reconstructing aboriginality /
Pauline Wakeham decodes the practice of taxidermy as it was performed in North America from the late nineteenth century to the present, revealing its connection to ecological and racial discourses integral to the maintenance of colonial power. Moving beyond the literal practice of stuffing skins, Wa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Pauline Wakeham decodes the practice of taxidermy as it was performed in North America from the late nineteenth century to the present, revealing its connection to ecological and racial discourses integral to the maintenance of colonial power. Moving beyond the literal practice of stuffing skins, Wakeham theorizes taxidermy as a sign system that conflates animality and aboriginality within colonial narratives of extinction. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 255 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-246) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816656615 0816656614 0816650543 9780816650545 0816650551 9780816650552 |