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1 online resource (xxvii, 322 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Asia: local studies/global themes ; 27
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Asia--local studies/global themes ; 27.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-322) and index. |
| Summary |
It is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped Japan's emergence as a modern nation-state. Less commonly recognized is the role played by the distinctly hybrid institution-at once museum, laboratory, and prison-of the zoological garden. In this eye-opening study of Japan's first modern zoo, Tokyo's Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens, opened in 1882, Ian Jared Miller offers a refreshingly unconventional narrative of Japan's rapid modernization and changing relationship with the natural world. As the first zoological garden in the wo. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Animals in the Anthropocene -- Ecological Modernity in Japan -- The Natural World as Exhibition -- pt. ONE THE NATURE OF CIVILIZATION -- 1. Japan's Animal Kingdom: The Origins of Ecological Modernity and the Birth of the Zoo -- Bringing Politics to Life -- Sorting Animals Out in Meiji Japan -- Animals in the Exhibitionary Complex -- The Ueno Zoo -- Ishikawa Chiyomatsu and the Evolution of Exhibition -- Bigot's Japan -- Conclusion -- 2. The Dreamlife of Imperialism: Commerce, Conquest, and the Naturalization of Ecological Modernity -- The Dreamlife of Empire -- The Nature of Empire -- Nature Behind Glass -- Backstage at the Zoo -- The Illusion of Liberty -- Imperial Trophies -- Imperial Nature -- Conclusion -- pt. TWO THE CULTURE OF TOTAL WAR -- 3. Military Animals: The Zoological Gardens and the Culture of Total War -- Military Animals -- Mobilizing the Animal World -- The Eye of the Tiger -- Animal Soldiers -- Horse Power -- Conclusion -- 4. The Great Zoo Massacre -- The Culture of Total Sacrifice -- A Strange Sort of Ceremony -- Mass-Mediated Sacrifice -- The Taxonomy of a Massacre -- The Killing Floor -- And Then There Were Two -- Conclusion -- pt. THREE AFTER EMPIRE -- 5. The Children's Zoo: Elephant Ambassadors and Other Creatures of the Allied Occupation -- Bambi Goes to Tokyo -- Empire after Empire -- Neocolonial Potlatch -- "Animal Kindergarten" -- Occupied Japan's Elephant Mania -- Elephant Ambassadors -- Conclusion -- 6. Pandas in the Anthropocene: Japan's "Panda Boom" and the Limits of Ecological Modernity -- The "Panda Boom" -- The Science of Charisma -- Panda Diplomacy -- "Living Stuffed Animals" -- The Nature of Copyright -- The Biotechnology of Cute -- Conclusion. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ueno Dōbutsuen (Tokyo, Japan) -- History.
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Ueno Dōbutsuen (Tokyo, Japan) |
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History. |
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Ueno Dōbutsuen (Tokyo, Japan) |
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Zoos -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History.
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Zoos -- Social aspects. |
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Japan. |
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Zoos. |
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Philosophy of nature -- Japan -- History.
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Philosophy of nature. |
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Nature and civilization -- Japan -- History.
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Nature and civilization. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Empire and Exhibition At The Tokyo Imperial Zoo |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Miller, Ian Jared, 1970- Nature of the beasts. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013] 9780520271869 (DLC) 2013002001 (OCoLC)833917969 |
| ISBN |
9780520952102 (electronic book) |
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0520952103 (electronic book) |
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129967738X (electronic book) |
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9781299677388 (electronic book) |
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9780520271869 |
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0520271866 |
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