Neurath's whale

Henning, Michelle

Abstract

Taking a brief passage by Otto Neurath about a whale exhibit, I raise questions about how we interpret exhibits, using phenomenological and social-historical approaches, and I use Bruno Latour’s notion of objects as actants and imbroglios to reconsider the anthropological idea of the “social life of things” and ask how museums and popular attractions manage and contain their specimens.

Citation

Henning, M. (2011). Neurath's whale. In S. Alberti (Ed.), The Afterlives of Animals. University of Virginia Press

• Conference Name: The Afterlife of Animals
• Conference Location: Manchester University, UK
• Start Date: Dec 16, 2009
• End Date: Dec 16, 2009
• Publication Date: Sep 1, 2011
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Book Title: The Afterlives of Animals
• ISBN: 9780813931678
• Keywords: Bruno Latour, Otto Neurath, museums, objects
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/959743
• Publisher URL: http://books.upress.virginia.edu/detail%2Fbooks%2Fgroup-4342.xml?q=The%20Afterlives%20of%20Animals