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Nature's Mirror : How Taxidermists Shaped America's Natural Histo
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- Book Title
- Nature's Mirror : How Taxidermists Shaped America's Natural Histo
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- 9780226730318
- Subject Area
- Nature, Science
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- Nature's Mirror : How Taxidermists Shaped America's Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species
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- University of Chicago Press
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- Environmental Conservation & Protection, General, History, Life Sciences / Zoology / General
- Publication Year
- 2020
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- Hardcover
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- English
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It may be surprising to us now, but the taxidermists who filled the museums, zoos, and aquaria of the twentieth century were also among the first to become aware of the devastating effects of careless human interaction with the natural world. Witnessing firsthand the decimation caused by hide hunters, commercial feather collectors, whalers, big game hunters, and poachers, these museum taxidermists recognized the existential threat to critically endangered species and the urgent need to protect them. The compelling exhibits they created--as well as the scientific field work, popular writing, and lobbying they undertook--established a vital leadership role in the early conservation movement for American museums that persists to this day. Through their individual research expeditions and collective efforts to arouse demand for environmental protections, this remarkable cohort--including William T. Hornaday, Carl E. Akeley, and several lesser-known colleagues--created our popular understanding of the animal world and its fragile habitats. For generations of museum visitors, they turned the glass of an exhibition case into a window on nature--and a mirror in which to reflect on our responsibility for its conservation.
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University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022673031x
ISBN-13
9780226730318
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Publication Name
Nature's Mirror : How Taxidermists Shaped America's Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Environmental Conservation & Protection, General, History, Life Sciences / Zoology / General
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Nature, Science
Number of Pages
264 Pages
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Item Length
0 in
Item Height
0 in
Item Width
0 in
Item Weight
20 Oz
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2020-003829
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Ql63.A547 2020
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Readers interested in the history of museums and how the wealthy supported science in the late 1800s and early 1900s will enjoy this book. . . . Recommended. All readers., An extremely well-researched and written history. . . . This is an excellent book and those interested in the science and art of taxidermy will enjoy reading it. . . . Nature's Mirror is a finely crafted, well-documented doorway into the world of the early larger-than-life characters, the often healthy competition between museums and zoos to develop their exhibits, and conservation battles of the early 20th century., A delightfully engaging and captivating read. . . . Nature's Mirror is a well written and extensively researched work which offers a welcome contribution to the history of taxidermy and museum display in America., Deeply researched and beautifully written, Nature's Mirror is a fascinating account of the development of an American school of taxidermy and the transformation that movement wrought on natural history museums at the turn of the twentieth century. Andrei charts how the men of Ward's Natural Science Establishment revolutionized animal displays and in the process redefined the public work of natural history museums, awakened Americans to humanity's impact on the natural world, and pioneered wildlife conservation practices that saved dozens of species from extinction., Nature's Mirror has rearranged the furniture in my head. Its author has rescued a group of turn-of-the-twentieth-century taxidermists/naturalists who in fact were crucial players in stopping the wholesale extinction of some of America's most cherished animals. Read this book and you're never going to stand before a natural history exhibit in one of America's great museums and think of it in the same way again., Nature's Mirror is a fascinating account of the development of taxidermy in late nineteenth-century North America. . . . a well-researched, informative, and highly readable book that provides valuable insight into the evolution of America's natural history museums., Andrei has written an important book that fills the gape in our understanding of the modern conservation movement. Nature's Mirror celebrates the unsung heroes who used the tools of taxidermy and museum design to ensure that humans retained their connection to wildlife as they transitioned from people of the land to urban dwellers. At the turn of the last century, before efficient field photography, they created artistic renderings of animals that few would have an opportunity to see and imbedded, in our minds, accurate images of the creatures with whom we share this world. In the process, they saved many species and showed us that extinction is not inevitable., Andrei has written an important book that fills the gape in our understanding of the modern conservation movement. Nature's Mirror celebrates the unsung heroes who used the tools of taxidermy and museum design to ensure that humans retained their connection to wildlife as they transitioned from people of the land to urban dwellers. At the turn of the last century, before efficient field photography, they created artistic renderings of animals that few would have an opportunity to see, and they embedded, in our minds, accurate images of the creatures with whom we share this world. In the process, they saved many species and showed us that extinction is not inevitable., Most welcome and much needed. . . . Andrei's book presents the complex and admittedly sometimes contradictory personalities of, and motivations behind, the people who brought to life some of the most well known natural history museum displays ever seen in the United States. In it she also examines how the creation of these displays brought to light the rapidly declining populations of some of the animals presented in them, as well as their visual power to influence public interest in their conservation., A ubiquitous element of Americana, taxidermy hangs above our bars, fills our home trophy rooms, attracts visitors to our sporting goods stores, and educates us in our natural history museums. In Nature's Mirror Mary Andrei not only describes in detail the development and evolution of scientific taxidermy but also tells a thorough and compelling story of how the work of early taxidermists shaped America's perceptions and understanding of nature, ultimately leading to the protection of numerous endangered species.
Table of Content
Introduction 1 "A Gathering Place for Amateur Naturalists": Ward's and the Birth of the Habitat Group 2 "Breathing New Life into Stuffed Animals": The Society of American Taxidermists 3 "The Destruction Wrought by Man": Smithsonian Taxidermy and the Birth of Wildlife Conservation 4 Competing Ideas, Competing Institutions: Decorative versus Scientific Taxidermy at the Carnegie and Field Museums 5 "The Duty to Conserve": Museums and the Fight to Save Endangered Marine Mammals 6 "Brightest Africa": Carl Akeley and the American Museum's Race to Bring Africa to America Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2020
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
590.752
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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