The Haraway Reader

The Haraway Reader

Language: English

Pages: 352

ISBN: 0415966892

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


The Haraway Reader brings together a generous selection of Donna Haraway's work, she is one of our keenest observers of nature, science, and the social world and this volume is ideal introduction to her thought.

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Carl E. Akeley in the Field Museum of Natural History;' Chicago: Field Museum, 1 927). M. J. Akeley ( 1 929b: 1 27-30, 1 940: l l 5) . Akeley ( 1 923: 223-24) . Akeley recognized the utility ofhis camera's telephoto feature to anthropologists for making "motion pictures ofnatives of uncivilized countries without their knowledge" (Akeley 1 923: 166). October 1 923, prospectus, AMNH; Johnson ( 1 936); M. J. Akeley ( 1 929b: 1 29 ) ; July 26, 1 923, Akeley memorandum on Martin Johnson Film

Adam, authorized to name not by God's creative hand, but by the animal's transformative touch. The people of Tanzania disap­ pear in a story in which the actors are the anthropoid apes and a young British white woman engaged in a thoroughly modern sacred secular drama. The chimpanzees and Goodall are both enmeshed in stories of endangerment and salvation. In the post-World War II era the apes face biological extinction; the planet faces nuclear and ecological annihila­ tion; and the West faces

opics; Local Terms canine nor purely human. Further, personhood is only one local, albeit historically broadly important, way of being a subject. And, like most moral relationships, this one cannot rely on ignorance of radical hetero­ geneity in the commitment to equality-as-sameness. Certainly, however, in the training relationship animals and people are constructing a historically specific form oflife, and therefore a language. They are engaged in making some effective meanings rather than

Museum film archive of Carl Akeley, Herbert Bradley, and Mary Hastings Bradley holding up the gorilla head and corpse to be recorded by the camera is an unforgettable image. 18 The face of the dead giant evokes Bosch's conception of pain, and the lower jaw hangs slack, held up by Akeley's hand. The body looks bloated and utterly heavy. Mary Bradley gazes smilingly at the faces of the male hunters, her own eyes averted from the camera. Akeley and Herbert Bradley look directly at the camera in

eluded him. In 1 92 1 , financing half the expense himself, Akeley left for Africa, this time accompanied by a married couple, their 5 -year-old daughter, their governess, and Akeley's adult niece whom he had promised to take hunting in Africa. In 1 923 in New York, Carl and Delia divorced-an event unrecorded in versions of his life; Delia just disappears from the narratives. In 1 924 Akeley married Mary L. Jobe, the explorer/adventurer/author who accompanied him on his last adventure, the

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