Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo

Nigel Rothfels

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002

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To modern sensibilities, 19th-century zoos often seem to be unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped, wrought-iron cages. Today zoo animals, in at least the better zoos, wander in open spaces that resemble natural habitats and are enclosed, not by bars, but by moats, cliffs, and other landscape features. In this text, Nigel Rothfels traces the origins of the modern zoo to the efforts of the German animal entrepreneur Carl Hagenbeck. By the late-19th century, Hagenbeck had emerged as the world's undisputed leader in the capture and transport of exotic animals. His business included procuring and exhibiting indigenous peoples in highly profitable spectacles throughout Europe and training exotic animals - humanely, Hagenbeck advertised - for circuses around the world. When in 1907 the Hagenbeck Animal Park opened in a village near Hamburg, Germany, Hagenbeck brought together all his business interests in a revolutionary zoological park, one that moved wild animals out of their cages and into "natural landscapes" while also showing "primitive" peoples from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the islands of the Pacific in constructed villages and other environments. Hagenbeck had invented a new way of imagining captivity: the animals and people on exhibit appeared to be living in the wilds of their native lands. By looking at Hagenbeck's multiple enterprises, this work demonstrates how seemingly enlightened ideas about the role of zoos and the nature of animal captivity developed within the essentially tawdry business of placing exotic creatures on public display. Rothfels aims to provide much-needed historical perspective on the nature of our relationship with the animal kingdom.…

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Titre
Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo
Auteur
Nigel Rothfels
Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Année de publication
2002
État de l'article
Good
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Hardback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0801869102
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780801869105
Série
Livre 8 sur 21: Animals, History, Culture

World of Books (was SecondSale)

Montgomery, IL, Etats-Unis

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