Zoo Culture,9780252024573

Zoo Culture

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780252024573
ISBN10: 0252024575
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-01-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Illinois Pr
List Price: $20.28

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Summary

Why do people go to zoos? Is the role of zoos to entertain or to educate? In this provocative book, the authors demonstrate that zoos tell us as much about humans as they do about animals and suggest that while animals may not need zoos, urban societies seem to.

A new introduction takes note of dramatic changes in the perceived role of zoos that have occurred since the book's original publication.

Table of Contents

Preface ix(2)
Introduction to the Second Edition xi(6)
Introduction to the First Edition xvii
1. HUMANS IN ANIMAL SKIN
1(30)
2. CONTAINMENT AND CONTROL
31(15)
3. ZOO ARCHITECTURE
46(22)
4. EXHIBITION
68(21)
5. FROM PRINCELY MENAGERIES TO PUBLIC ZOOS
89(27)
6. THE CULTURAL STATUS OF THE ZOO
116(21)
7. THE ANIMAL AS COMMODITY
137(14)
8. THE ZOO IN EVOLUTION
151(10)
Bibliography 161(8)
Index 169
Illustrations follow page 88

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