Animals on display : the creaturely in museums, zoos, and natural history / edited by Liv Emma Thorsen, Karen A. Rader, and Adam Dodd.
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- [2013]
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Description
"A collection of essays on the historical representation and display of animals. Using examples from the eighteenth century to the present, the essays situate case studies in historical and sociocultural context while addressing the importance of visibility for the arrangement and sustenance of human-animal relations"--Provided by publisher.
Publication/Creation
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2013]
Physical description
222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents
Monstrous pigs : animal monsters and museum practices in the eighteenth-century El Real Gabinete de Historia Natural / Lise Camilla Ruud -- The frames of specimens : glass cases in Bergen Museum around 1900 / Brita Brenna -- Preserving history : collecting and displaying in Carl Akeley's In brightest Africa / Nigel Rothfels -- The pleasure of describing : art and science in August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof's monthly insect entertainment / Brian W. Ogilvie -- Images, ideas, and ideals : thinking with and about Ross's gull / Henry A. McGhie -- A dog of myth and matter : Barry the Saint Bernard in Bern / Liv Emma Thorsen -- Popular entomology and anthropomorphism in the nineteenth century : L.M. Budgen's Episodes of insect life / Adam Dodd -- Interacting with the watchful grasshopper; or, why live animals matter in twentieth-century science museums / Karen A. Rader -- Polar bear Knut and his blog / Guro Flinterud.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Location Status Access Closed storesM22341
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ISBN
- 9780271060705
- 0271060700
- 0271060719
- 9780271060712