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."--Page 4 of cover
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-250) and index
