Why do we go to the zoo? : communication, animals, and the cultural-historical experience of zoos /

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This book is a phenomenological investigation of the zoo visit experience. Why Do We Go to the Zoo is rooted in Husserlian phenomenology and focuses on the communicative interactions between humans and animals in the zoo setting. The book also provides the student examples of how to do phenomenology...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Garrett, Erik A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2014].
Series:Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in communication studies.
Subjects:
Zoos > Social aspects.
Zoos > Psychological aspects.
Zoos > Philosophy.
Zoo visitors.
Zoo animals.
Human-animal communication.
Animals, Zoo
Jardins zoologiques > Aspect social.
Jardins zoologiques > Aspect psychologique.
Jardins zoologiques > Philosophie.
Jardins zoologiques > Fréquentation.
Animaux de jardin zoologique.
Communication avec les animaux.
NATURE > Animals > General.
NATURE > Animals > Wildlife.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > General.
Human-animal communication
Zoo animals
Zoo visitors
Zoos > Philosophy
Zoos > Social aspects
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Knutmania
  • Displaying the phenomenological method
  • Phenomenology and the life-world of animals
  • Let's go to the zoo : natural world description of visitor narratives
  • Bracketing : a trip to the zoo
  • Rhetoric and synecdoche
  • Playing at the zoo and kinaesthesia
  • Zoos troubled origin : toward a genetic and generative phenomenology
  • Epilogue.

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