Output details
24 - Anthropology and Development Studies
Roehampton University
Article title
L’animal de zoo: Un rôle entre sauvage et domestique
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
Title of journal
Techniques & culture
Article number
-
Volume number
50
Issue number
-
First page of article
102
ISSN of journal
1952-420X
Year of publication
2008
URL
-
Number of additional authors
-
Additional information
-
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
Zoos are inhabited by thousands of individual animals from scores of different species. In everyday speech and in the literature about zoos such animals are given a common identity when they are referred to, and classified as, ‘wild’ animals. I suggest that the classifying and categorisation of animals in zoo as ‘wild’ animals is problematic. Clearly the animal in the zoo is related to the wild animal and I am interested in how it might be represented as a wild animal and how it represents a wild animal.
