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humanimalia-10001	Walls, Alissa	Taxidermy as Knowledge: Review of Rachel Poliquin, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing	2013	5	.pdf	application/pdf	1863	77	49	While both Wakeham’s and Poliquin’s books investigate the relationship between taxidermic animals and human animals, Poliquin’s could go much further in exploring what animal studies scholar Cary Wolfe described in his Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory (2003) as, “The trope of the animal in the history of philosophy, and in contemporary popular culture, as the figure that is not merely below or beside ‘the human’ but actively constitutive of the human” (xiv). Poliquin organizes each chapter to address the various reasons that humans preserve non-human animals, from rare objects included in Renaissance Wunderkammern to memorials of deceased family pets.	cache/humanimalia-10001.pdf	txt/humanimalia-10001.txt