Animals on display : the creaturely in museums, zoos, and natural history / edited by Liv Emma Thorsen, Karen A. Rader, and Adam Dodd.
Thorsen, Liv Emma, editor.; Rader, Karen A. (Karen Ann), 1967- editor.; Dodd, Adam, 1976- editor.
2013
QL71.A1 A55 2013 (Mapit)
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Title Animals on display : the creaturely in museums, zoos, and natural history / edited by Liv Emma Thorsen, Karen A. Rader, and Adam Dodd.
ISBN 9780271060705 hardcover
0271060700 hardcover
9780271060712
0271060719
Published University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2013]
Language English
Description 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Call Number QL71.A1 A55 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 590.75
Summary "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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Thorsen, Liv Emma, editor.
Rader, Karen A. (Karen Ann), 1967- editor.
Dodd, Adam, 1976- editor.
Series Animalibus ; vol. 3.
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Introduction : making animals visible / Adam Dodd, Karen A. Rader, and Liv Emma Thorsen
Six 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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