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Taxidermic Signs: Reconstructing Aboriginality
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Full Title:
Taxidermic Signs: Reconstructing Aboriginality
Contributors:
By (Author) Pauline Wakeham
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:
University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date:
1st July 2008
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
General
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Indigenous peoples
Social and cultural anthropology
Dewey:
970.01
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
280
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 18mm
Description
Pauline Wakeham decodes the practice of taxidermy as it was performed in North America from the late nineteenth century to the present, revealing its connection to ecological and racial discourses integral to the maintenance of colonial power. Moving beyond the literal practice of stuffing skins, Wakeham theorizes taxidermy as a sign system that conflates "animality" and "aboriginality" within colonial narratives of extinction.
