Why Look at Elephants?

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" Why Look at Elephants? "
Nigel Rothfels

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1086240
Doc. No	:	LA129869
Call No	:	‭10.1163/1568535054615312‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Nigel Rothfels
Title & Author	:	Why Look at Elephants? [Article]\ Nigel Rothfels
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology
Date	:	2005
Volume/ Issue Number	:	9/2
Page No	:	166–183
Abstract	:	"Through analysis of the contending ways elephants have been imagined in a mid twentieth-century circus performance and in a mid nineteenth-century hunting narrative, this essay offers a critique of several basic assumptions behind John Berger's "Why Look at Animals?" The paper argues that studying how elephants have been described and used reveals particularly well the often quickly evolving nature of our understanding of animals and their significance in our lives, and concludes that our historical comprehension of the very terms of "animal" and "human" is often surprisingly complex. Through analysis of the contending ways elephants have been imagined in a mid twentieth-century circus performance and in a mid nineteenth-century hunting narrative, this essay offers a critique of several basic assumptions behind John Berger's "Why Look at Animals?" The paper argues that studying how elephants have been described and used reveals particularly well the often quickly evolving nature of our understanding of animals and their significance in our lives, and concludes that our historical comprehension of the very terms of "animal" and "human" is often surprisingly complex."
Descriptor	:	CIRCUS
Descriptor	:	ELEPHANTS
Descriptor	:	HISTORY
Descriptor	:	HUNTING
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/1568535054615312‬