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<div align="center">Modern Times, Rural Places:<br><br>
Seminar Series at MIT<br><br>
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Janet Browne<br>
</b>Professor of History of Medicine<br>
University College London<br><br>
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<b><i>"Safari Culture: Gorilla Expeditions in the African
Highlands or Domesticating the Wild from Paul du Chaillu to Dian
Fossey"<br><br>
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This talk addresses some of the main shifts in twentieth century thought
relating to safari culture and encounters with gorillas in the field. It
draws on Carl Akeley (1864-1926), taxidermist to the American Museum of
Natural History in New York, who made important collecting expeditions in
the early years of the century and established the first national reserve
for gorillas in Rwanda in 1926. From the 1970s onwards, Dian Fossey's
purpose was neither to kill or capture but to watch. Ultimately she came
to regard gorilla society as her family, in a sense domesticating the
imagery of these wild animals and the local environment.<br><br>
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Friday, April 8, 2005<br><br>
2:30 to 4:30 pm<br><br>
MIT, Building E51 Room 095<br><br>
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Sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and the Program in Science,
Technology, and Society<br>
For more information or to be put on the mailing list, please contact
Margo Collett at <a href="mailto:mcollet@mit.edu">mcollett@mit.edu<br>
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