Constructing the Zoo: Science, Society, and Animal Nature at the Paris Menagerie, 1794-1848

建造动物园：巴黎动物园的科学、社会和动物本性，1794-1848 年

• 批准号: 9601390
• 负责人: Richard Burkhardt
• 金额: $ 4.78万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-01-01 至 1997-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9601390&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Constructing; Zoo; Science; Society; Animal

Founded at the height of the French Revolution, situated at the world's premier institution for the study of natural history, the menagerie of the Museum D'Histoire Naturelle in Paris was conceived to have not only great scientific potential but also significant social, political and moral potential. This history of the first fifty years of the menagerie's existence aims to illuminate several related topics: (1) the functions originally conceived for the menagerie, and how these functions were realized, revised or reformulated; (2) the animals included in the menagerie and how they influenced scientific and popular understanding of animal nature; (3) the problematic role living animals played in French zoology and in the life of the Museum; (4) the character of scientific research practice as displayed in the studies of animal behavior conducted at the menagerie by Cuvier.

巴黎自然历史博物馆（Museum D’histoire Naturelle）成立于法国大革命鼎盛时期，位于世界上首屈一指的自然历史研究机构，人们认为它不仅具有巨大的科学潜力，而且具有重要的社会、政治和道德潜力。这段关于动物园成立50年的历史旨在阐明几个相关主题：(1)最初为动物园设想的功能，以及这些功能是如何实现、修改或重新制定的；(2)动物园所包括的动物，以及它们如何影响科学和大众对动物性质的认识；(3)活的动物在法国动物学和博物馆生活中所起的问题作用；(4)居维叶在动物园进行的动物行为研究所显示的科学研究实践的特点。