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Ape Culture

Published in association with the exhibition 'Ape Culture' at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, from 30. April to 6. Juli 2015.

Erschienen am 15.07.2015
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ISBN/EAN: 9783959050067
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 200 S.
Format (T/L/B): 1.6 x 25.4 x 18 cm
Einband: gebundenes Buch

Beschreibung

Ape Culture traces the long cultural and scientific obsession with humanitys closest relatives. In the Western historical representations of modernity, depictions of apes were traditionally used to show the absence of culture. Standing as a liminal figure separating humans and animals, the ape has, since ancient times, played a central role in the narrative of civilisational progress. This book, which appears in conjunction with the exhibition of the same nameseeks, however, to go beyond the mere examination of apes as signifiers of difference. The juxtaposition of artworks with documents taken from popular culture and the history of primatology gives the reader an insight into what the science historian Donna Haraway has termed the primate order a hall of mirrors reflecting the scientific and cultural projections that turned the ape from an instrument of humanitys self-definition into an integral element in testing out the possibility of reconstructing human nature. Ape Culture will be shown at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt from 30 April to 6 July 2015.

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