Entertaining Elephants: Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus

(Part of the Animals, History, Culture Series)

by Susan Nance

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How the lives and labors of nineteenth-century circus elephants shaped the entertainment industry.

Consider the career of an enduring if controversial icon of American entertainment: the genial circus elephant. In Entertaining Elephants Susan Nance examines elephant behavior--drawing on the scientific literature of animal cognition, learning, and communications--to offer a study of elephants as actors (rather than objects) in...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1421408295

ISBN13:9781421408293

Release Date:March 2013

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.22 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 9.0"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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