Nigel Rothfels
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1162870 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nigel Rothfels |
| PRENOMES | Nigel |
| SOBRENOME | Rothfels |
| ASSINATURA | ROTHFELS N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7822-8919 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Afterword
Afterword to the Special Issue
Elephant Trails
Elephant Trails
R oel S terckx , M artina S iebert , and D agmar S chäfer , editors. Animals through Chinese History
In this collection, editors Roel Sterckx (University of Cambridge), Martina Siebert (Berlin State Library), and Dagmar Schäfer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) bring a diverse group of scholars together to explore the history of human-animal relationships in China and how the Chinese have thought about the world through their understandings of animals. The scope of the project is ambitious. Beyond its staggering temporal …
Jason M. Colby, Orca
If you ever found yourself reading a book and realizing that you wished you had the skills to write anything like it, you know how I felt reading Jason Colby's
John Bierlein and the Staff of HistoryLink, Woodland
Killing Elephants
Of all the stories of elephant hunting in the nineteenth century, only a few have been as well known as those written by Roualeyn Gordon Cumming, a British hunter and adventurer, who was arguably "the most celebrated of all nineteenth-century hunters in southern Africa". Arthur H. Neumann, for example, hunting sixty years later, repeatedly succeeded in killing more than ten elephants in a single day, bringing down elephant after elephant with onl…
Mark Dugas & Piers Locke. Servants of Ganesh

Savages and Beasts
How the Caged Bird Sings
Why Look at Elephants
Through analysis of the contending ways elephants have been imagined in a mid twentieth-century circus performance and in a mid nineteenth-century hunting narrative, this essay offers a critique of several basic assumptions behind John Berger's "Why Look at Animals?" The paper argues that studying how elephants have been described and used reveals particularly well the often quickly evolving nature of our understanding of animals and their signif…
Why Look at Elephants
Through analysis of the contending ways elephants have been imagined in a mid twentieth-century circus performance and in a mid nineteenth-century hunting narrative, this essay offers a critique of several basic assumptions behind John Berger's "Why Look at Animals?" The paper argues that studying how elephants have been described and used reveals particularly well the often quickly evolving nature of our understanding of animals and their signif…
Why Look at Elephants
Through analysis of the contending ways elephants have been imagined in a mid twentieth-century circus performance and in a mid nineteenth-century hunting narrative, this essay offers a critique of several basic assumptions behind John Berger's "Why Look at Animals?" The paper argues that studying how elephants have been described and used reveals particularly well the often quickly evolving nature of our understanding of animals and their signif…
How the Caged Bird Sings
Savages and Beasts
Mark Dugas & Piers Locke. Servants of Ganesh

Killing Elephants
Of all the stories of elephant hunting in the nineteenth century, only a few have been as well known as those written by Roualeyn Gordon Cumming, a British hunter and adventurer, who was arguably "the most celebrated of all nineteenth-century hunters in southern Africa". Arthur H. Neumann, for example, hunting sixty years later, repeatedly succeeded in killing more than ten elephants in a single day, bringing down elephant after elephant with onl…
R oel S terckx , M artina S iebert , and D agmar S chäfer , editors. Animals through Chinese History
In this collection, editors Roel Sterckx (University of Cambridge), Martina Siebert (Berlin State Library), and Dagmar Schäfer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) bring a diverse group of scholars together to explore the history of human-animal relationships in China and how the Chinese have thought about the world through their understandings of animals. The scope of the project is ambitious. Beyond its staggering temporal …
Jason M. Colby, Orca
If you ever found yourself reading a book and realizing that you wished you had the skills to write anything like it, you know how I felt reading Jason Colby's
John Bierlein and the Staff of HistoryLink, Woodland
Elephant Trails
Elephant Trails
Afterword
Afterword to the Special Issue
Art (4 obras) · Geography (4 obras) · History (4 obras) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 obras) · History (3 obras) · History of Science and Medicine (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras) · Aesthetics (2 obras) · Archaeology (2 obras) · Biology (2 obras)