| Animals on Display: The Creaturely in Museums, Zoos, and Natural History Contributor(s): Thorsen, LIV Emma (Editor), Rader, Karen A. (Editor), Dodd, Adam (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0271060700 ISBN-13: 9780271060705 Publisher: Penn State University Press OUR PRICE: $72.22 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Zoology - General - Nature | Animals - General - Nature | Animal Rights |
| Dewey: 590.75 |
| LCCN: 2013012122 |
| Series: Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6.41" W x 9.27" (1.19 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: John Berger famously said that "in the last two centuries, animals have gradually disappeared." Those who share his view contend that animals have been removed from our daily lives and that we have been removed from the daily lives of animals. This has been the impetus for a plethora of representational practices that, broadly conceived, work to fill in the gap between humans and animals. Ironically, many of these may ultimately intensify the very nostalgia, distance, and ignorance they were devised to remedy. Animals on Display presents nine lively and engaging essays on the historical representation and display of nonhuman animals. Looking at a wide range of examples, many of them now little known, the essays situate them in their historical and sociocultural contexts, while speaking to the ongoing importance of making animals visible for the arrangement and sustenance of human-animal relations. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Brita Brenna, Guro Flinterud, Henry A. McGhie, Brian W. Ogilvie, Nigel Rothfels, and Lise Camilla Ruud. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rader, Karen A.: - Karen A. Rader is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Virginia Commonwealth University.Rader, Karen A.: - Karen A. Rader is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Virginia Commonwealth University. Thorsen, LIV Emma: - Liv Emma Thorsen is Professor in the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo.Dodd, Adam: - Adam Dodd is an independent researcher whose interests focus on the role that visioning technologies have played in developing conceptions of nonhuman animals. |