Unternehmen Kolibri
Of Hitler and Hummingbirds
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12418347 |
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| Authors | Noah Comet (0000-0002-6658-4999, Associate Professor, Department of English, The United States Naval Academy https://dx.doi.org/32722 Annapolis, MD USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 7-8 |
| Pages | 669-682 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Society and Animals (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1063-1119 • E-ISSN: 1568-5306 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15685306-bja10141 |
| OpenAlex | W4386753296 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
The hummingbird’s biological and cultural associations with beauty, sweetness, and docility belie a longstanding symbolic association with violence and danger. Taking the Nazis’ surprising adoption of the symbol as a point of departure, this essay traces this association to its Mesoamerican origins, and follows its emergence in European and British culture through travel writing, naturalism, commercialism, and popular culture, reflecting on how an evolving understanding of the birds’ behavior and morphology influenced its symbolic history
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Beauty · Biology · Commercialism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · German · Hummingbird · Literature · Naturalism · Nazism · Numinous · Political science · Sociology · Symbol (formal · History · Law · Philosophy · Travel Writing and Literature · Ecology
| Highly cited | No |
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