"Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo is a biographical study of a single historical zoo, the National Zoological Park of Washington, D.C., from 1887 to 1920. Each chapter centers animals, and each looks from a different angle at the influential science of popular zoology in order to shed new light on the complex, entangled relationships between humans and animals. Daniel Vandersommers's goal is twofold. First, through narrative, he shows how zoo animals always ran away from the zoo. This is meant literally: animals ...
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"Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo is a biographical study of a single historical zoo, the National Zoological Park of Washington, D.C., from 1887 to 1920. Each chapter centers animals, and each looks from a different angle at the influential science of popular zoology in order to shed new light on the complex, entangled relationships between humans and animals. Daniel Vandersommers's goal is twofold. First, through narrative, he shows how zoo animals always ran away from the zoo. This is meant literally: animals escaped frequently. Even more, though, this is meant figuratively. Living, breathing, historical zoo animals ran away from their cultural constructions, and these constructions ran away from the living bodies they were made to represent. His book shows that the resulting gaps produced by escapes - by runaway animals - contain concealed, distorted, and erased histories worthy of uncovering. Second, the book shows how the popular zoology fostered by the National Zoo shaped every aspect of American science, culture, and conservation during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Between the 1880s and World War I, as intellectuals debated Darwinism and scientists institutionalized the laboratory, zoological parks appeared suddenly at the heart of nearly every major American city, captivating tens of millions of visitors. Vandersommers follows stories previously hidden within the historical zoo in order to help us reconsider the place of zoos and its inhabitants in the twenty-first century"--
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