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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Garrett, Erik A.
Imprint:	Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2014].
Description:	1 online resource (x, 143 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in communication studies Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in communication studies.
Subject:	Zoos -- Social aspects. Zoos -- Psychological aspects. Zoos -- Philosophy. Zoo visitors. Zoo animals. Human-animal communication. Human-animal communication. Zoo animals. Zoo visitors. Zoos -- Philosophy. Zoos -- Social aspects.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11404695

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ISBN:	9781611476460 1611476461 9781611476453 1611476453
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-137) and index. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Why do we go to the zoo? Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2014]. 9781611476453 (cloth : alkaline paper)

Table of 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.