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Animal Modernity: Jumbo the Elephant and the Human Dilemma
Susan Nance
出版
Springer
, 2015-10-08
主題
History / Social History
History / World
History / Modern / General
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
Nature / General
History / General
Science / General
ISBN
1137562072
9781137562074
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=yXq0CgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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The concept of 'modernity' is central to many disciplines, but what is modernity to animals? Susan Nance answers this question through a radical reinterpretation of the life of Jumbo the elephant. In the 1880s, consumers, the media, zoos, circuses and taxidermists, and (unknowingly) Jumbo himself, transformed the elephant from an orphan of the global ivory trade and zoo captive into a distracting international celebrity. Citizens on two continents imaged Jumbo as a sentient individual and pet, but were aghast when he died in an industrial accident and his remains were absorbed by the taxidermic and animal rendering industries reserved for anonymous animals. The case of Jumbo exposed the 'human dilemma' of modern living, wherein people celebrated individual animals to cope or distract themselves from the wholesale slaughter of animals required by modern consumerism.