03971nam 2200673Ia 450 991045353390332120200520144314.00-520-95210-310.1525/9780520952102(CKB)2550000001064490(EBL)1218871(OCoLC)851157936(SSID)ssj0000917003(PQKBManifestationID)11461527(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000917003(PQKBWorkID)10877569(PQKB)10494347(StDuBDS)EDZ0000229698(MiAaPQ)EBC1218871(MdBmJHUP)muse30852(DE-B1597)519484(DE-B1597)9780520952102(Au-PeEL)EBL1218871(CaPaEBR)ebr10721341(CaONFJC)MIL498988(EXLCZ)99255000000106449020130329d2013 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe nature of the beasts[electronic resource] empire and exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo /Ian Jared Miller ; foreword by Harriet RitvoBerkeley University of California Press20131 online resource (353 p.)Asia--local studies/global themesDescription based upon print version of record.0-520-27186-6 1-299-67738-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Japan's Ecological Modernity -- Part One. The Nature of Civilization -- Part Two. The Culture of Total War -- Part Three. After Empire -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexIt is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped Japan's emergence as a modern nation-state. Less commonly recognized is the role played by the distinctly hybrid institution-at once museum, laboratory, and prison-of the zoological garden. In this eye-opening study of Japan's first modern zoo, Tokyo's Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens, opened in 1882, Ian Jared Miller offers a refreshingly unconventional narrative of Japan's rapid modernization and changing relationship with the natural world. As the first zoological garden in the world not built under the sway of a Western imperial regime, the Ueno Zoo served not only as a staple attraction in the nation's capital-an institutional marker of national accomplishment-but also as a site for the propagation of a new "natural" order that was scientifically verifiable and evolutionarily foreordained. As the Japanese empire grew, Ueno became one of the primary sites of imperialist spectacle, a microcosm of the empire that could be traveled in the course of a single day. The meaning of the zoo would change over the course of Imperial Japan's unraveling and subsequent Allied occupation. Today it remains one of Japan's most frequently visited places. But instead of empire in its classic political sense, it now bespeaks the ambivalent dominion of the human species over the natural environment, harkening back to its imperial roots even as it asks us to question our exploitation of the planet's resources.Asia: Local Studies / Global ThemesZoosSocial aspectsJapanHistoryPhilosophy of natureJapanHistoryNature and civilizationJapanHistoryElectronic books.ZoosSocial aspectsHistory.Philosophy of natureHistory.Nature and civilizationHistory.590.52/135Miller Ian Jared1970-1045060MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453533903321The nature of the beasts2471028UNINA