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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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Language
English
Published/Created
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2013]
©2013
Description
222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
QL71.A1 A55 2013
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Subject(s)
Zoological specimens
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Exhibitions
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Social aspects
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History
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Natural history museums
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Exhibitions
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History
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Human-animal relationships
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Editor
Thorsen, Liv Emma
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Rader, Karen A. (Karen Ann), 1967-
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Dodd, Adam, 1976-
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Series
Animalibus
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Animalibus: of animals and cultures
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Summary note
"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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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ISBN
9780271060705 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0271060700 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0271060719
9780271060712
LCCN
2013012122
OCLC
844774244
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