- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (15 entries) : 31 images, digital files.
- Summary
- Explores the sacred and the symbolic (totem, sacrifice, status and popular beliefs); hunting; domestication (taming, breeding, labour and companionship); entertainment and exhibitions (the menagerie, zoos, circuses and carnivals); science and specimens (research, education, collections and museums); philosophical beliefs; and artistic representations.
- Series Statement
- Cultural history of animals ; v. 6
- Uniform Title
- Cultural history of animals in the modern age (Online)
- Cultural history of animals ; v. 6.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical referenceses.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also available in print version.
- System Details (note)
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on title page of print version.
- Contents
- Introduction: Famous Animals in Modern Culture / Randy Malamud -- 1 The Cosmic Spider and Her Worldwide Web: Sacred and Symbolic Animals in the Era of Change / Boria Sax -- 2 An Anthropological Examination of Hunting: Ethnography and Sensation / Garry Marvin -- 3 The Present and Future of Animal Domestication / Margo DeMello -- 4 Zoo Animals as Entertainment Exhibitions / David Hancocks -- 5 Scientific Animals: Reflections on the Laboratory and Its Human-Animal Relations, from Dba to Dolly and Beyond / Karen A. Rader -- 6 Animal Philosophy: Bioethics and Zoontology / Ralph R. Acampora -- 7 Animals in Visual Art from 1900 to the Present / Jonathan Burt.
- OCLC
- ssj0000506552
- Title
A cultural history of animals in the modern age [electronic resource] / edited by Randy Malamud ; general editors, Linda Kalof and Brigitte Resl.
- Imprint
Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2007 (Boston, Mass. : Credo Reference, 2011.)
- Edition
English ed.
- Series
Cultural history of animals ; v. 6
Cultural history of animals ; v. 6.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical referenceses.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Additional Formats
Also available in print version.
- System Details
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Note
Description based on title page of print version.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Malamud, Randy.
Kalof, Linda.
Pohl-Resl, Brigitte.
Credo Reference (Firm)
- Other Form:
Print version: 184520381X 9781845203818 (DLC) 2007031782 ix, 249 p. : ill.
- LCCN
2007031782