Entertaining Elephants: Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus

by Susan Nance

Book Overview

How the lives and labors of nineteenth-century circus elephants shaped the entertainment industry.

Consider the career of an enduring if controversial icon of American entertainment: the genial circus elephant. In Entertaining Elephants Susan Nance examines elephant behavior--drawing on the scientific literature of animal cognition, learning, and communications--to offer a study of elephants as actors (rather than objects) in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421408295
• ISBN13: 9781421408293
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher