9780271053738-0271053739-The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing (Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures)

The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing (Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures)

ISBN-13: 9780271053738
ISBN-10: 0271053739
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Rachel Poliquin
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Format: Paperback 272 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780271053738
ISBN-10: 0271053739
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Rachel Poliquin
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Format: Paperback 272 pages

Summary

The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing (Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures) (ISBN-13: 9780271053738 and ISBN-10: 0271053739), written by authors Rachel Poliquin, was published by Penn State University Press in 2013. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Themes (European History, Linguistics, Words, Language & Grammar , Animals, Nature & Ecology, Zoology, Biological Sciences, Fauna, Cultural, Anthropology, Arts History & Criticism) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing (Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Themes books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.41.

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From sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing examines the cultural and poetic history of preserving animals in lively postures. But why would anyone want to preserve an animal, and what is this animal-thing now? Rachel Poliquin suggests that taxidermy is entwined with the enduring human longing to find meaning with and within the natural world. Her study draws out the longings at the heart of taxidermy—the longing for wonder, beauty, spectacle, order, narrative, allegory, and remembrance. In so doing, The Breathless Zoo explores the animal spectacles desired by particular communities, human assumptions of superiority, the yearnings for hidden truths within animal form, and the loneliness and longing that haunt our strange human existence, being both within and apart from nature.

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