Why would someone create or own the mounted skin of a dead animal? That's the question Dave Madden explores in The Authentic Animal . He begins with the life story of Carl Akeley, father of modern taxidermy, who started by stuffing a canary and ended with creating the Akeley Hall of African Mammals at The American Museum of Natural History. To get a first-hand glimpse at this world, Madden travels to the World Taxidermy Championships, the garage workplaces of people who mount freeze-dried pets for bereaved owners and the classrooms of a taxidermy academy where students stretch deer pelts over foam bases. On his travels he looks at the forms taxidermy takes - hunting trophies, museum dioramas, roadside velties, pet memorials - and considers what taxidermy has to tell us about human-animal relationships.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Griffin Publishing, Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.
ISBN-10
1250014727
ISBN-13
9781250014726
eBay Product ID (ePID)
138796848
Product Key Features
Author
Dave Madden
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Inventions & Technology: General Interest
Genre
Inventions & Technology: General Interest
Dimensions
Weight
240g
Height
210mm
Width
140mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
California
Spine
19mm
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Author Biography
DAVE MADDEN is a professor at The University of Alabama. He lives in Tuscaloosa and co-edits The Cupboard, a quarterly pamphlet. The Authentic Animal is his first book.