| ISBN |
1421408295 (hdbk. : acid-free paper)
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| ISBN13桁 |
9781421408293 (hdbk. : acid-free paper)
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| 無効なISBN等 |
9781421408736 (electronic)
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| テキストの言語 |
英語
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| 分類：NDC10版 |
489.7
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| 個人著者標目 |
Nance, Susan.
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| 本タイトル |
Entertaining elephants :
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| タイトル関連情報 |
animal agency and the business of the American circus /
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| 著者名 |
Susan Nance.
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| 出版地・頒布地 |
Baltimore :
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| 出版者・頒布者名 |
Johns Hopkins University Press,
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| 出版年・頒布年 |
c2013.
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| 数量 |
viii, 294 p. :
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| 他の形態的事項 |
ill. ;
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| 大きさ |
24 cm.
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| 書誌注記 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-288) and index.
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| 内容注記 |
Why elephants in the early republic? -- Becoming an elephant "actor" -- Learning to take direction -- Punishing bull elephants -- Herd management in the gilded age -- Going off script -- Animal cultures lost in the circus, then and now.
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| 要約、抄録、注釈等 |
"Consider the career of an enduring if controversial icon of American entertainment: the genial circus elephant. In Entertaining Elephants Susan Nance examines elephant behavior - drawing on the scientific literature of animal cognition, learning, and communications - to offer a study of elephants as actors (rather than objects) in American circus entertainment between 1800 and 1940. By developing a deeper understanding of animal behavior, Nance asserts, we can more fully explain the common history of all species. Entertaining Elephants is the first account that uses research on animal welfare, health, and cognition to interpret the historical record, examining how both circus people and elephants struggled behind the scenes to meet the profit necessities of the entertainment business. The book does not claim that elephants understood, endorsed, or resisted the world of show business as a human cultural or business practice, but it does speak of elephants rejecting the conditions of their experience. They lived in a kind of parallel reality in the circus, one that was defined by their interactions with people, other elephants, horses, bull hooks, hay, and the weather. Nance's study informs and complicates contemporary debates over human interactions with animals in entertainment and beyond, questioning the idea of human control over animals and people's claims to speak for them. As sentient beings, these elephants exercised agency, but they had no way of understanding the human cultures that created their captivity, and they obviously had no claim on (human) social and political power. They often lived lives of apparent desperation."--Publisher description.
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| 統一タイトル(シリーズ副出標目) |
Animals, history, culture.
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| シリーズ名・巻次 |
Animals, history, culture |
| 一般件名 |
Elephants -- History -- United States -- 19th century.
Animal welfare -- History -- United States -- 19th century. |
| 地名件名 |
USA.
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| 資料情報1 |
『Entertaining elephants :
animal agency and the business of the American circus /』（Animals, history, culture） Susan Nance. Johns Hopkins University Press, c2013.
（所蔵館：中央
請求記号：F/489.7/N17/E
資料コード：7103143844）
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| URL |
https://catalog.library.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/winj/opac/switch-detail.do?lang=ja&bibid=1352008859 |
