Erasing the extinct: the hunt for Caribbean monk seals and museum collection practices

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Autor(a) principal: Jørgensen,Dolly
Data de Publicação: 2021
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: História. Ciências. Saúde-Manguinhos
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Resumo: Abstract The Caribbean monk seal (Monachus tropicalis), the only seal species native to Central America, was declared extinct in 2008, with the last confirmed sighting in 1952. This species historically had a broad range throughout the gulf of Mexico. This article discusses the history of Western science on the monk seal, from its first recorded sighting by a Western colonizer in 1492 to scientific collection in the 1800s and 1900s, as a history of the erasure of this species. Museum practices of collecting and displaying Caribbean monk seals have directly contributed to this erasure, and ways of writing a new history by giving the Caribbean monk seal the capacity to refuse erasure are suggested.
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title Erasing the extinct: the hunt for Caribbean monk seals and museum collection practices
spellingShingle Erasing the extinct: the hunt for Caribbean monk seals and museum collection practices
Jørgensen,Dolly
environmental history
extinction
museums
natural history
animals
title_short Erasing the extinct: the hunt for Caribbean monk seals and museum collection practices
title_full Erasing the extinct: the hunt for Caribbean monk seals and museum collection practices
title_fullStr Erasing the extinct: the hunt for Caribbean monk seals and museum collection practices
title_full_unstemmed Erasing the extinct: the hunt for Caribbean monk seals and museum collection practices
title_sort Erasing the extinct: the hunt for Caribbean monk seals and museum collection practices
author Jørgensen,Dolly
author_facet Jørgensen,Dolly
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Jørgensen,Dolly
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv environmental history
extinction
museums
natural history
animals
topic environmental history
extinction
museums
natural history
animals
description Abstract The Caribbean monk seal (Monachus tropicalis), the only seal species native to Central America, was declared extinct in 2008, with the last confirmed sighting in 1952. This species historically had a broad range throughout the gulf of Mexico. This article discusses the history of Western science on the monk seal, from its first recorded sighting by a Western colonizer in 1492 to scientific collection in the 1800s and 1900s, as a history of the erasure of this species. Museum practices of collecting and displaying Caribbean monk seals have directly contributed to this erasure, and ways of writing a new history by giving the Caribbean monk seal the capacity to refuse erasure are suggested.
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