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Author Thorsen, Liv Emma, author.

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

Publication Info. Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, [2014]
Hightown, Lancaster, United Kingdom : Gazelle Book Services Ltd.
Bristol, CT : ISD.
©2014
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Description 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-250) and index.
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.
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."--P. [4] of cover.
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Subject Göteborgs naturhistoriska museum -- History.
Göteborgs naturhistoriska museum.
History.
Zoological specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Sweden -- Göteborg.
Zoological specimens -- Collection and preservation.
Sweden -- Göteborg.
Natural history museums -- Sweden -- Göteborg -- History.
Natural history museums.
Göteborg (Sweden)
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Göteborgs naturhistoriska museum.
Other Form: Print version: Thorsen, Liv Emma. Elephants are not picked from trees. Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, [2014] 9788771242126 (OCoLC)894198722
ISBN 9788771840827 (electronic book)
8771840826 (electronic book)
9788771242126
8771242120

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