Teddy Bear Patriarchy Taxidermy In The Garden Of Eden New York City 19081936 Donna Haraway by Donna Haraway instant download after payment.

by Frederick Law Olmsted to heal the over-wrought or decadent city dweller

with a prophylactic dose of nature. Immediately across from the park the Theodore

Roosevelt Memorial presides as the central building of the American Museum

of Natural History, a monumental reproduction of the Garden of Eden. In the

Garden, Western Man may begin again the first journey, the first birth from

within the sanctuary of nature. An institution founded just after the Civil War

and dedicated to popular education and scientific research, the American Museum

of Natural History is the place to undertake this genesis, this regeneration. Passing

through the Museum's Roosevelt Memorial atrium into the African Hall, opened

in 1936, the ordinary citizen may enter a privileged space and time: the Age

of Mammals in the heart of Africa, scene of the origin of our species.3 A hope

is implicit in every architectural detail: in immediate vision of the origin, perhaps

the future can be fixed. By saving the beginnings, the end can be achieved and

the present can be transcended. African Hall offers a unique communion with

nature at its highest and yet most vulnerable moment, the moment of the interface

of the Age of Mammals with the Age of Man. This communion is offered through

the sense of vision by the craft of taxidermy.