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Zoo Studies - A New Humanities (Paperback)
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Zoo Studies - A New Humanities (Paperback)
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Do both the zoo and the mental hospital induce psychosis, as humans
are treated as animals and animals are treated as humans? How have
we looked at animals in the past, and how do we look at them today?
How have zoos presented themselves, and their purpose, over time?
In response to the emergence of environmental and animal studies,
anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, theorists, literature
scholars, and historians around the world have begun to explore the
significance of zoological parks, past and present. Zoo Studies
considers the modern zoo from a range of approaches and
disciplines, united in a desire to blur the boundaries between
human and nonhuman animals. The volume begins with an account of
the first modern mental hospital, La Salpetriere, established in
1656, and the first panoptical zoo, the menagerie at Versailles,
created in 1662 by the same royal architect; the final chapter
presents a choreographic performance that imagines the Toronto Zoo
as a place where the human body can be inspired by animal bodies.
From beginning to end, through interdisciplinary collaboration,
this volume decentres the human subject and offers alternative ways
of thinking about zoos and their inhabitants. This collection
immerses readers in the lives of animals and their experiences of
captivity and asks us to reflect on our own assumptions about both
humans and animals. An original and groundbreaking work, Zoo
Studies will change the way readers see nonhuman animals and
themselves.
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