Taxidermy freezes colonial hunting trophies in an anachronistic suspended time

Evidence

Taxidermy is located at the complex crossroads of Enlightenment science, colonial trophy hunting, and hypermasculine interior design. Taxidermal time is, in multiple senses, suspended time: the mounted corpses are frozen in animated positions, usually (for predators) with fangs exposed. The period reference is anachronistic as is the craft itself, which projects a musty, neo-Victorian aura of white male risk-management. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 1204

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Relates to ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ and more strongly to the safari/lodge material in earlier chapters (36-38) where commodified white-masculinity authenticity is sold; taxidermy is the domestic-object form of that same atavistic white-masculine staging.
• XREF: Builds on ch36-38’s eco-tourism analysis of white masculine performance and suspended/atavistic time inside game reserves.