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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thorsen, Liv Emma, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history museums.

Sweden--Göteborg.

Göteborg (Sweden).

Göteborgs naturhistoriska museum.

Göteborgs naturhistoriska museum--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Aarhus : Aarhus Universitetsforlag, [2014]

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."--Page 4 of cover

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

87-7184-082-6

OCLC:

1108563105