Why do we go to the zoo? :

Garrett, Erik A.,

Why do we go to the zoo? : communication, animals, and the cultural-historical experience of zoos / Erik A. Garrett. - 1 online resource (155 pages) : illustrations. - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in communication studies . - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in communication studies. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9781611476460 (e-book)


Zoos--Social aspects.
Zoos--Psychological aspects.
Zoos--Philosophy.
Zoo visitors.
Zoo animals.
Human-animal communication.


Electronic books.

QL76 / .G37 2014

590.73