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Zooland : the institution of captivity / Irus Braverman.

by Braverman, Irus, 1970-

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Stanford, California : Stanford Law Books, c2013.

Zoos -- North America -- Management.

Zoo animals -- North America.

Human-animal relationships -- North America.

9780804783576 (cloth : alk. paper)

0804783578 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780804783583 (pbk. : alk. paper) :

0804783586 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Cultural lives of law.

xiv, 264 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Naturalizing zoo animals -- Classifying zoo animals -- Seeing zoo animals -- Naming zoo animals -- Registering zoo animals -- Regulating zoo animals -- Reproducing zoo animals.

This book takes a unique stance on a controversial topic: zoos. Zoos have their ardent supporters and their vocal detractors. And while we all have opinions on what zoos do, few people consider how they do it. Irus Braverman draws on more than seventy interviews conducted with zoo managers and administrators, as well as animal activists, to offer a glimpse into the otherwise unknown complexities of zooland. Zooland begins and ends with the story of Timmy, the oldest male gorilla in North America, to illustrate the dramatic transformations of zoos since the 1970.

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