By Sarah Whatmore
Hybrid Geographies significantly examines the "opposition" among nature and tradition, the fabric and the social, as represented in medical, environmental and renowned discourses. Demonstrating that the area isn't really an completely human fulfillment, Hybrid Geographies reconsiders the relation among human and non-human, the social and the fabric, exhibiting how they're in detail and variously associated.
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Jennison, in his classic account of animals in ancient Rome (1937), gives an example from the correspondence of Cicero of such a net-working. Cicero was appointed governor of Cilicia in southern Asia Minor in 51 BC. Hardly had he arrived there, than he found himself the recipient of ever more desperate epistles from his friend Marcus Caelius Rufus requesting leopards for games he was preparing in anticipation of his being elected to the curule aedileship in 50 BC. In nearly all my letters to you I have mentioned the subject of leopards.
And he died, this one actually hit a window which was quite unfortunate. (NB, 12/12/97) Thus mobilized as vital statistics, in terms of their parentage, fecundity, genetic profile and so forth, the manipulation and correlation of these virtual bodies on computer screens and printouts might translate into an ‘optimal pairing’ of creatures living continents apart. Such digitized knowledges facilitate an unprecedented managerial capacity in the practices of captive breeding. ARKS, for example, ‘. .
As such, they were seen by their contemporaries as closer in status to the beasts they fought than to the civilized spectator. Leading Roman commentators may have found popular tastes unedifying but they endorsed the martial morality of the venationes as an opportunity for their human and animal participants, unlike those condemned to death, to redeem themselves through combat and so die honourably (Wiedemann, 1992). Such events figured prominently in the material culture of the period, or at least in those documents and artefacts which have found their way into the modern archaeological record and scholarly accounts of the Roman world (Toynbee, 1973; Ville, 1981).