Elephants are not picked from trees : animal biographies in Gothenburg Natural History Museum / Liv Emma Thorsen.

By:

Thorsen, Liv Emma [author.]

Contributor(s):

Göteborgs naturhistoriska museum

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, [2014]Distributor: Bristol, CT : ISDDistributor: Hightown, Lancaster, United Kingdom : Gazelle Book Services Ltd.Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9788771840827
8771840826

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Elephants are not picked from trees.DDC classification:

590.7 23

LOC classification:

QL71.S82 G68 2014eb

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Contents:

Introduction : a museum and its animals -- Commercialized : the gorilla from Rowland Ward -- Captured : Monjet the monkey -- Stranded : the walrus from Rörön -- Collected : the African elephant -- Conclusion : animals, society and history.

Summary: "The book examines how the museum acquired animals for its exhibits from 1906 to 1948, and how living animals bodies became museum exhibits. Using photographs and documents from the Gothenburg Natural History Museum, the book shows that these museums are in possession of valuable material for writing the cultural history of animals, and that the museums of natural history display a nature that is historically, socially and culturally construed."--Page 4 of cover

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-250) and index.

"The book examines how the museum acquired animals for its exhibits from 1906 to 1948, and how living animals bodies became museum exhibits. Using photographs and documents from the Gothenburg Natural History Museum, the book shows that these museums are in possession of valuable material for writing the cultural history of animals, and that the museums of natural history display a nature that is historically, socially and culturally construed."--Page 4 of cover

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