TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robbins,Louise E.
TI  - Elephant slaves and pampered parrots: exotic animals in eighteenth-century Paris 
T2  - Animals, history, culture 
SN  - 0-8018-6753-3
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - John Hopkins University
KW  - Animales salvajes
KW  - Francia
KW  - Paris
KW  - 17
KW  - París (Francia)
KW  - Vida social y costumbres
N1  - Índice; Bibliografía: p. 237-336
N2  - Eighteenth-century Paris abounded with animals captured in faraway places and brought to the French capital. Louise Robbins has done a masterful job recapturing this phenomenon, bringing it to the attention of modern readers, and making sense of it. She reconstructs the diverse material, social, and cultural settings in which exotic animals played a role. At the same time, she analyzes the multiple meanings French observers derived from these animals in their midst. The reader will find here a wealth of insights regarding the ways ideas about human social relations have influenced representations of animal behavior or human-animal relations, and vice versa. This is a marvelous book, wonderfully researched and engagingly written
ER  -