Rebecca Bishop
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693226 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Bishop |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Bishop |
| SIGNATURE | BISHOP R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Complex Millenium of Zoos
A review of Eric Baratay and Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier's Zoo: A History of Zoological Gardens in the West (Reaktion Books, London, 2002
Some other kind of being
When asked to describe herself, Koko the nonhuman primate replied in sign-language that she was indeed a ‘fine animal gorilla’. One of several nonhuman primates that have been undergoing language training since the 1970s, Koko’s ability to grasp the fundaments of human expression have caused both fascination and derision in popular and scientific cultures. Yet visions of the language-using ape have not been simply a phenomenon of the twentieth an…
Forms Of Life
In her seminal work on representations of the nonhuman primate, Haraway has evoked tropes of reflection: monkeys and apes mirror humans in a complex play of distortions over centuries of western commentary. While the great ape has indeed served as a mirror to shifting notions of human agency and identity, critical questions remain underexplored in these tropes: who, or what, is reflected in the visage of the great ape? What kind of selfhood, what…
Journeys to the Urban Exotic
Several Exceptional Forms of Primates”
The ape has long held an ambiguous position in the Euro-Western scientific and cultural imaginary. A creature “betwixt and between” a human-like selfhood and the terrain of animality, the ape has consistently been drawn into socioscientific anxieties and debates surrounding what constitutes “being human.” Sf cinema is built on notions of the human always under threat from the amorphous or anthropomorphic others of alternate technocultural realiti…
The Dread of Sameness
A review of Jackie Stacey, The Cinematic Life of the Gene
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The Dread of Sameness
A review of Jackie Stacey, The Cinematic Life of the Gene
Several Exceptional Forms of Primates”
The ape has long held an ambiguous position in the Euro-Western scientific and cultural imaginary. A creature “betwixt and between” a human-like selfhood and the terrain of animality, the ape has consistently been drawn into socioscientific anxieties and debates surrounding what constitutes “being human.” Sf cinema is built on notions of the human always under threat from the amorphous or anthropomorphic others of alternate technocultural realiti…
Forms Of Life
In her seminal work on representations of the nonhuman primate, Haraway has evoked tropes of reflection: monkeys and apes mirror humans in a complex play of distortions over centuries of western commentary. While the great ape has indeed served as a mirror to shifting notions of human agency and identity, critical questions remain underexplored in these tropes: who, or what, is reflected in the visage of the great ape? What kind of selfhood, what…
Journeys to the Urban Exotic
Some other kind of being
When asked to describe herself, Koko the nonhuman primate replied in sign-language that she was indeed a ‘fine animal gorilla’. One of several nonhuman primates that have been undergoing language training since the 1970s, Koko’s ability to grasp the fundaments of human expression have caused both fascination and derision in popular and scientific cultures. Yet visions of the language-using ape have not been simply a phenomenon of the twentieth an…
A Complex Millenium of Zoos
A review of Eric Baratay and Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier's Zoo: A History of Zoological Gardens in the West (Reaktion Books, London, 2002
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