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Zoo studies : a new humanities
\"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 Salpêtrière, 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\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Exhibition of Botocudos at Piccadilly Hall
Abstract In 1883 five Brazilian Botocudos were exhibited at Piccadilly Hall, London's popular theatre. This exhibition aimed to replicate in Europe the success achieved by the display of seven Botocudos, held the previous year by the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro at the Brazilian Anthropological Exhibition. Measured and studied by scientists from the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, the Botocudos performed daily for the public in London, Manchester, and Sheffield, until they were sold to P.T. Barnum, joining the US tour of the Grand Ethnological Congress of the Bailey and Barnum Circus. This article emphasises the ambivalent trajectory between science and spectacle in these three different exhibition formats and versions. Illustrations, posters, photographs and newspaper reports are relied on as research sources.
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The Zoo at the Edge of the World
\"Marlin, a stutterer, can talk smoothly and freely with the jungle animals that populate his father's zoo in South America--until a mysterious man-eating black jaguar that his father catches and brings back home talks back\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Rethinking Humanism and Education Through Sloterdijk’s Rules for the Human Zoo
This study examines the challenges of humanism and education in the 21st century as addressed by the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk in his Elmau Speech (1999). In this lecture, titled Rules for the Human Zoo, Sloterdijk argues that the traditional notion of humanism, specifically “humanism as a literary society,” has reached its conclusion, necessitating the development of a new humanism appropriate for the contemporary era. However, the new concept of humanism emerging from what Sloterdijk terms the “anthropotechnic turn” appears to align with the discourses surrounding human enhancement that have emerged in the 21st century, thereby influencing the realm of education. The first half of this article reports on the significant concerns and criticisms expressed by the media at that time regarding this new humanism, which seems to be associated with eugenicist ideas. Taking a step further, this study critically examines the nature of the challenges around education implied by Sloterdijk, specifically the conflict between “friend of humans and friend of Übermensch”, and explores the potential roles and responsibilities of education in the latter part of the paper.
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Contact in Context
Contact between cultures has been understood in various ways and this particular volume considers the European cultural, social, scientific, philosophical and political contexts framing encounter. All of the essays thus look at the different ways in which individuals and institutions work these contexts into their representations of contact settings. In Part 1, the conventional stance is adopted where encounter is understood as taking place elsewhere and not on European soil. The chapters ex.
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Zooland : the institution of captivity
\"This book takes a unique stance on a controversial topic: zoos. Zoos have their ardent supporters and their vocal detractors. While we all have opinions on what zoos do, few people consider how they do it. Modern zoos have transformed themselves from places created largely for entertainment to globally connected institutions that emphasize care through conservation and education. Irus Braverman draws on more than sixty interviews conducted with zoo managers and administrators, as well as animal activists, and takes readers behind the exhibits into the world or zoo animals and their caretakers to offer a glimpse into the otherwise unknown complexities of zooland.\"--Page [4] of cover.
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\Show Meets Science:\ How Hagenbeck's \Human Zoos\ Inspired Ethnographic Science and Its Museum Presentation
This chapter attempts to explain the role of \"human zoos\" in the emergence of scientific ethnography and its display in museums by examining the case of the private portfolio of the first director of the Natural History Museum Vienna, Ferdinand von Hochstetter.
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This vast portfolio includes photographs of the first Völkerschauen (\"peoples' exhibitions\") by Carl Hagenbeck (1844-1913). Some of the pictures of the Greenland Inuit appear to have been the templates for at least two sculptures of \"native types\" that the Austrian sculptor Viktor Tilgner used for his Inuit caryatids in the exhibition hall. This discovery sheds new light on the complex relation between \"human zoos\" and early ethnographic science.
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Little Beauty
When a gorilla who knows sign language tells his keepers that he's lonely, they bring him a very special friend.
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A Exposição Antropológica Brasileira de 1882 e a exibição de índios botocudos: performances de primeiro contato em um caso de zoológico humano brasileiro
Resumo Este artigo remonta a Exposição Antropológica Brasileira, exibida no Segundo Império, no ano de 1882, no Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. Convido o leitor a interpretar esse evento pouco lembrado da história brasileira, com o intuito de reconstituir a apresentação de sete índios botocudos, levados à corte com a finalidade de serem expostos ao público e ao mesmo tempo estudados pelos pesquisadores do Museu Nacional. Finda a participação dos índios botocudos na referida exposição, publica-se a notícia de que alguns destes mesmos índios teriam sido enviados para a Europa, gerando acaloradas discussões na imprensa nacional. A partir de documentos institucionais do Museu Nacional e reportagens de jornais da época, lança-se luz sobre o fenômeno das grandes exposições antropológicas de finais do século XIX, aqui entendidas como zoológicos humanos. Diante desse evento e da prática de colecionamento e tráfico de pessoas e objetos etnográficos, abre-se um espelho, desde o qual se pode vislumbrar a formação da antropologia brasileira e questões fundamentais à identidade nacional. Abstract This article reconstitutes the Brazilian Anthropological Exhibition, displayed in the Second Empire, in the year 1882, at the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. The reader it is invited to interpret this forgotten event of Brazilian history, with the intention of reconstituting the presentation of seven Botocudo Indians, brought to court for the purpose of being exposed to the public and at the same time analyzed by the researchers of the National Museum. After the participation of the Botocudo Indians in this exhibition, it is published in the news that some of these same Indians had been sent to Europe, generating heated discussions in the national press. From institutional documents of the National Museum and newspaper reports of the time, this article sheds light on the phenomenon of great anthropological exhibitions of the late nineteenth century, understood here as human zoos. Before this event and the practice of collecting and trafficking people and ethnographic objects, a mirror is opened, from which one can glimpse the formation of Brazilian anthropology and fundamental questions to the national identity.
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