Jones, Karen (2016) The Rhinoceros and the Chatham Railway: Taxidermy and the Production of Animal Presence in the "Great Indoors”. History, 101 (348). pp. 710-735. ISSN 0018-2648. E-ISSN 1468-229X. (doi:10.1111/1468-229X.12325) (KAR id:56326)
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Abstract
This article considers the practice of taxidermy and its relationship to the ‘golden age’ of big game hunting, the science of natural history and the dramaturgical codes of empire by looking at the collecting exploits of one man, Major Percy Powell-Cotton (1866–1940), and his attempts to preserve the spoils of the hunt in the ‘great indoors’. As various scholars have pointed out, taxidermy offers up a vivid and striking ‘afterlife’ of the animal with a unique (and some might say unsavoury) ability to elucidate our environmental and cultural relations with other species. As such, the reanimated animals of empire, posed on the walls of the country estate or arrested in museum cases, represent valuable historical artefacts ripe for unstitching. Drawing on the work of Garry Marvin, Sam Alberti and Merle Patchett, this article stalks Powell-Cotton's taxidermic project across various sites of capture, production and display (what I call necrogeographies) to illuminate the sinuous contours of imperial natural history and the stories of pursuit, production and performance lurking beneath the skin of the reanimated animal.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1111/1468-229X.12325 |
Subjects: | D History General and Old World |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of History |
Depositing User: | M.R.L. Hurst |
Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2016 09:41 UTC |
Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 10:46 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/56326 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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