Title Why do we go to the zoo? : communication, animals, and the cultural-historical experience of zoos / Erik A. Garrett

Published Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 143 pages) Series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in communication studies Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in communication studies. Contents Knutmania -- Displaying the phenomenological method -- Phenomenology and the life-world of animals -- Let's go to the zoo : natural world description of visitor narratives -- Bracketing : a trip to the zoo -- Rhetoric and synecdoche -- Playing at the zoo and kinaesthesia -- Zoos troubled origin : toward a genetic and generative phenomenology -- Epilogue Summary This book is a phenomenological investigation of the zoo visit experience. Why Do We Go to the Zoo is rooted in Husserlian phenomenology and focuses on the communicative interactions between humans and animals in the zoo setting. The book also provides the student examples of how to do phenomenology Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-137) and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Zoos -- Social aspects Zoos -- Psychological aspects Zoos -- Philosophy Zoo visitors. Zoo animals. Human-animal communication. Animals, Zoo NATURE -- Animals -- General. NATURE -- Animals -- Wildlife. SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General. Human-animal communication Zoo animals Zoo visitors Zoos -- Philosophy Zoos -- Social aspects Form Electronic book LC no. 2020739690 ISBN 9781611476460 1611476461

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