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The Human Zoo (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Human Zoo (Paperback, New Ed)
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List price R307
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This is a highly readable but thoroughly irritating book. Morris is
a forceful stylist but the same quick flow of discourse which can
be insightful about modern society often edges over into blunt
absolutes or dire predictions open to question. In a chapter
discussing man's reaction to too little or too much stimulation,
for example, he remarks, "In infancy there is the example of
prolonged thumb-sucking, which results from too little contact and
inter-action with the mother." Or in a chapter dealing with race
relations ("In-Groups and Out-Groups") he blithely says, "A second
American Civil War seems to be imminent." in essence Morris' point
is that life on our over-humanly crowded planet mimics the
unnatural existence of captive animals in zoos. Under such
conditions animals may become homosexual, change their eating and
sleeping habits, pace to and fro, get bored, enraged, break down.
It follows then that "natural" man in "unnatural" society exhibits
the same aberrations for the same reasons: isolation, restriction
of territory, lack of stimulation, etc. But man today is not the
sum of all mammalian or even higher primate behavior, nor are his
sexual behavior patterns or his need for stimulation neatly
contained in ten phases of six principles. It is this kind of
constant reductio ad absurdum that weakens the value and invites
the kind of controversy Morris' books have generally provoked.
(Kirkus Reviews)
This study concerns the city dweller. Morris finds remarkable similarities with captive zoo animals and looks closely at the aggressive, sexual and parental behaviour of the human species under the stresses and pressures of urban living.
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