Publication Date:
2022-11-12
Description:
Monkeys are probably the animals with which we most readily identify when it comes to recognizing the human in the animal. Nevertheless, they symbolize, as it were, a fear of human degeneration. The particular human-animal relationship is the subject of this cultural history. Frank Jacob explains what role apes played for the self-perception of humans and how they were and are understood as humanoid animals, for example as objects in research and popular media. In doing so, he sheds light on a history of relationships that continues to this day, whereby the intensity of this relationship between humans and primates has been redefined again and again over the centuries.
Keywords:
Human-Animal Studies; Cultural History; Animal History; Media Studies; Film Studies; King Kong; Planet of the Apes; Charles Darwin; Samuel Serge Voronoff; Mary Sanders Pollock; Thomas Henry Huxley; Godzilla; Colonialism
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bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFD Media studies
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bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio::APF Films, cinema
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bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies::JFCA Popular culture
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bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AG Art treatments & subjects::AGN Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes, etc)
Language:
German
Format:
image/jpeg
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