Unternehmen Kolibri: Of Hitler and Hummingbirds

IF 0.6 4区农林科学 Q4 SOCIOLOGY

Society & Animals Pub Date : 2023-09-07 DOI:10.1163/15685306-bja10141

Noah Comet

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Abstract

Abstract The hummingbird’s biological and cultural associations with beauty, sweetness, and docility belie a longstanding symbolic association with violence and danger. Taking the Nazis’ surprising adoption of the symbol as a point of departure, this essay traces this association to its Mesoamerican origins, and follows its emergence in European and British culture through travel writing, naturalism, commercialism, and popular culture, reflecting on how an evolving understanding of the birds’ behavior and morphology influenced its symbolic history.

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Unternehmen Kolibri:希特勒和蜂鸟

蜂鸟在生物学和文化上与美丽、甜蜜和温顺的联系掩盖了长期以来与暴力和危险的象征联系。本文以纳粹出人意料地采用这一符号为出发点，将这种联系追溯到它的中美洲起源，并通过旅行写作、自然主义、商业主义和流行文化追踪它在欧洲和英国文化中的出现，反思对鸟类行为和形态的不断发展的理解如何影响其象征历史。

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Society & Animals 社会科学-兽医学

CiteScore

1.40

自引率

12.50%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Society & Animals publishes studies that describe and analyze our experiences of non-human animals from the perspective of various disciplines within both the Social Sciences (e.g., psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science) and the Humanities (e.g., history, literary criticism). The journal specifically deals with subjects such as human-animal interactions in various settings (animal cruelty, the therapeutic uses of animals), the applied uses of animals (research, education, medicine and agriculture), the use of animals in popular culture (e.g. dog-fighting, circus, animal companion, animal research), attitudes toward animals as affected by different socializing agencies and strategies, representations of animals in literature, the history of the domestication of animals, the politics of animal welfare, and the constitution of the animal rights movement.