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Author:

Thorsen, Liv Emma, author.

Title:

Elephants are not picked from trees : animal biographies in Gothenburg Natural History Museum / Liv Emma Thorsen.

Publisher:

Aarhus University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Subject:

Göteborgs naturhistoriska museum--History.
Zoological specimens--Collection and preservation--Göteborg.--Göteborg.
Natural history museums--Göteborg--Göteborg--History.
Göteborg (Sweden)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-250) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : a museum and its animals -- Commercialized : the gorilla from Rowland Ward -- Captured : Monjet the monkey -- Stranded : the walrus from Rörön -- Collected : the African elephant -- Conclusion : animals, society and history.

Summary:

"The book examines how the museum acquired animals for its exhibits from 1906 to 1948, and how living animals bodies became museum exhibits. Using photographs and documents from the Gothenburg Natural History Museum, the book shows that these museums are in possession of valuable material for writing the cultural history of animals, and that the museums of natural history display a nature that is historically, socially and culturally construed."--P. [4] of cover.

ISBN:

8771242120
9788771242126

OCLC:

(OCoLC)894198722

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)