Why do we go to the zoo? : communication, animals, and the cultural-historical experience of zoos / Erik A. Garrett.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Garrett, Erik A., author.

Series:

• Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in communication studies.
• Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in communication studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Zoos--Social aspects.
• Zoos--Psychological aspects.
• Zoos--Philosophy.
• Zoo visitors.
• Zoo animals.
• Human-animal communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (155 p.)

Place of Publication:

Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a phenomenological investigation of the zoo visit experience. Why Do We Go to the Zoo is rooted in Husserlian phenomenology and focuses on the communicative interactions between humans and animals in the zoo setting. The book also provides the student examples of how to do phenomenology.

Contents:

• Knutmania
• Displaying the phenomenological method
• Phenomenology and the life-world of animals
• Let's go to the zoo : natural world description of visitor narratives
• Bracketing : a trip to the zoo
• Rhetoric and synecdoche
• Playing at the zoo and kinaesthesia
• Zoos troubled origin : toward a genetic and generative phenomenology
• Epilogue.

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61147-646-1

OCLC:

870245509