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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464048603321

Autore

Garrett Erik A.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-61147-646-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (155 p.)

Collana

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in communication studies

Disciplina

590.73

Soggetti

Zoos - Social aspects

Zoos - Psychological aspects

Zoos - Philosophy

Zoo visitors

Zoo animals

Human-animal communication

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.