Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kilchör, Fabienne
• Lehmann, Jörg
• Liebal, Katja
• Lubrich, Oliver

Titel

Diesseits von Eden

Ist Teil von

• Scientia poetica : Jahrbuch für Geschichte der Literatur und der Wissenschaften, 2018-12, Vol.22 (1), p.151-179

Ort / Verlag

Berlin: De Gruyter

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This study examines paratexts and images in works of primatology. In order to classify generic traits of primatographical publications, all paratexts, images and narrative positions of a large corpus of such monographs were registered. The analysis of these data allows for the determination of three distinct genres: scientific books, illustrated books and autobiographical/popular science books. The paratexts also reveal the strategies employed in the presentation of the books: They address a lay public, underline scientific objectivity or generate authenticity. The form of the texts indicate the audiences that the books address and enact an intimate relationship between non-human primates and human beings. Images showing researchers in close contact with non-human primates as well as paratexts addressing monkeys or calling for their preservation and conservation embed these field studies within a Christian iconography, invoke the life of saints or martyrs and appeal to the empathy of the readership.