Zoo Studies: A New Humanities 9780773558151
An interdisciplinary collection that examines zoos from historical, philosophical, social, and cultural perspectives.
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English Pages [361] Year 2019
Table of contents :
Cover
ZOO STUDIES
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CONTENTS
Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Psychotic Humans, Psychotic Animals: The Zoo and the Mental Hospital, 1656–1794
2 The Antelope Collectors
3 Failed Zoo Experiments: Primatology, Aeronautics, and the Animality of “Modern” Science, 1891–1903
4 Sculpting Dinah with the Blunt Tools of the Historian
5 Stereoscopic Animals: Spectatorship, Kodiak Bears, and the Keystone Animal Set
6 “Try Telling That to the Polar Bears”: Rationing and Resistance at the Wartime Zoo
7 Gust (ca 1952–1988), or a History from Below of the Changing Zoo
8 Child Stars at the Zoo: The Rise and Fall of Polar Bear Knut
9 Pandas and the Reproduction of Race and Heterosexuality in the Zoo
10 Flying Penguins in Japan’s Northernmost Zoo
11 Al Gore, Blackfish, and Me: Eco-activist Progress and Prospects for the Future
12 Reorienting the Space of Containment, or from Zoosphere to Noösphere and Beyond
13 Zoomorphic Bodies: Moving and Being Moved by Animals
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
