La caravane des animaux. Circulation des « orangs-outans » et des savoirs, reconfigurations des frontières de l’humain
This article investigates the presence of exotic animals in Enlightenment Britain, paying particular attention to the “orangutans”. It traces the mobility of these beasts and the long-distance networks of their circulation; it outlines the multiple spaces of sociability around their observation whil...
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| description | This article investigates the presence of exotic animals in Enlightenment Britain, paying particular attention to the “orangutans”. It traces the mobility of these beasts and the long-distance networks of their circulation; it outlines the multiple spaces of sociability around their observation while stressing the diverse registers of discourses of which they are objects. Placed at the heart of comparative anatomy since the end of the 17th century, the orangutans became one of the great attractions in the new public spaces offered by London coffee-houses. The spectacularisation of the primates offered to a wider eighteenth-century public a new object for reflection about humanity and its boundaries. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-844ffcc4fd6e4a8db4d384ad3f8c43e52024-12-09T13:33:34ZengPresses Universitaires du MidiDiasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire1637-58232431-14722017-09-0129537010.4000/diasporas.735La caravane des animaux. Circulation des « orangs-outans » et des savoirs, reconfigurations des frontières de l’humainSilvia SebastianiThis article investigates the presence of exotic animals in Enlightenment Britain, paying particular attention to the “orangutans”. It traces the mobility of these beasts and the long-distance networks of their circulation; it outlines the multiple spaces of sociability around their observation while stressing the diverse registers of discourses of which they are objects. Placed at the heart of comparative anatomy since the end of the 17th century, the orangutans became one of the great attractions in the new public spaces offered by London coffee-houses. The spectacularisation of the primates offered to a wider eighteenth-century public a new object for reflection about humanity and its boundaries.https://journals.openedition.org/diasporas/735Londoncirculationsorangutan/chimpanzeeEnlightenmentcoffee-housesboundaries of humanity |
| spellingShingle | Silvia Sebastiani La caravane des animaux. Circulation des « orangs-outans » et des savoirs, reconfigurations des frontières de l’humain Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire London circulations orangutan/chimpanzee Enlightenment coffee-houses boundaries of humanity |
| title | La caravane des animaux. Circulation des « orangs-outans » et des savoirs, reconfigurations des frontières de l’humain |
| title_full | La caravane des animaux. Circulation des « orangs-outans » et des savoirs, reconfigurations des frontières de l’humain |
| title_fullStr | La caravane des animaux. Circulation des « orangs-outans » et des savoirs, reconfigurations des frontières de l’humain |
| title_full_unstemmed | La caravane des animaux. Circulation des « orangs-outans » et des savoirs, reconfigurations des frontières de l’humain |
| title_short | La caravane des animaux. Circulation des « orangs-outans » et des savoirs, reconfigurations des frontières de l’humain |
| title_sort | la caravane des animaux circulation des orangs outans et des savoirs reconfigurations des frontieres de l humain |
| topic | London circulations orangutan/chimpanzee Enlightenment coffee-houses boundaries of humanity |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/diasporas/735 |
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