Vida zoo-cial : the Buenos Aires Zoo and the making of Argentine society, 1875-1924 /
"An exploration of the unintended consequences of Argentinian elites' attempts to use the Buenos Aires Zoo as a tool for social reform"-- Provided by publisher.
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Nashville, Tennessee :
Vanderbilt University Press,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Vida coo-cial : the social life of the zoo
- A learned and hygienic excursion : public health, medicine, and the zoo
- Aristocratic apes and proletarian llamas : social class and labor at the zoo
- Guanacos or Bengal tigers? Zoo collections, acclimatization, and the defense of the raza Latina
- The national family goes to the zoo : reproduction, motherhood, and feminist ostriches
- Conclusion. A center for the irradiation of culture and ideas : the Buenos Aires Zoo as municipal, national, and international institution.