Narrating Animal History from the Crags: A Turn-of-the-Century Tale about Mountain Sheep, Resistance, and a Nation
| Autor: | Daniel Vandersommers |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
National government History General Arts and Humanities Narrative history General Social Sciences 06 humanities and the arts 01 natural sciences Archaeology Mountain sheep 060104 history 010601 ecology cvg.developer Ethnology 0601 history and archaeology cvg American west Resistance (creativity) Storytelling |
| Zdroj: | Journal of American Studies. 51:751-777 |
| ISSN: | 1469-5154 0021-8758 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s002187581600133x |
| Popis: | It took years, at the dawn of the twentieth century, for the National Zoo to capture Rocky Mountain sheep. The split hooves and remarkable eyesight of bighorns made these animals virtually impossible to catch alive. This is a story about a national government chasing sheep for the purpose of zoological display. This is also a story about the construction of knowledge, the ironies of conservation, and the building of the American West. More important, this is a story about storytelling. The following tale will call attention to the opportunities that zoological parks, animal history, and narrative history offer the historian. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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