Entertaining elephants : animal agency and the business of the American circus /

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In this book, the author examines elephant behavior - drawing on the scientific literature of animal cognition, learning, and communications - to offer a study of elephants as actors (rather than objects) in American circus entertainment between 1800 and 1940. By developing a deeper understanding of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nance, Susan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013
Series:Animals, history, culture.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Elephants > United States > History > 19th century.
Captive elephants > United States > History > 19th century.
Animal welfare > United States > History > 19th century.
Circus animals > United States > History > 19th century.
Circus > United States > History > 19th century.
Éléphants > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Éléphants en captivité > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Animaux de cirque > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Cirque > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Animal welfare
Captive elephants
Circus
Circus animals
Elephants
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Turning the circus inside out
  • Why elephants in the early republic?
  • Becoming an elephant "actor"
  • Learning to take direction
  • Punishing bull elephants
  • Herd management in the Gilded Age
  • Going off script
  • Animal cultures lost in the circus, then and now.

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