Stuffed animals & pickled heads : the culture and evolution of natural history museums / Stephen T....
Stuffed animals & pickled heads : the culture and evolution of natural history museums / Stephen T....
Stuffed animals & pickled heads : the culture and evolution of natural history museums / Stephen T. Asma.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
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2001.
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N508.074/1
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English
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xv, 302 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Flesh-eating Beetles and the Secret Art of Taxidermy -- Ch. 2. Peter the Great's Mysterious Jars: How to Pickle a Human Head and Other Great Achievements of the Scientific Revolution -- Ch. 3. Taxonomic Intoxication, Part I: Visualizing the Invisible -- Ch. 4. Taxonomic Intoxication, Part II:...
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
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England
Date Published
2001.
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"The natural history museum is a place where the line between "high" and "low" culture effectively vanishes - where our awe of nature, our taste for the bizarre, and our thirst for knowledge all blend happily together. But as Stephen Asma shows in Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads, there is more going on is these great institutions than just smart...
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Stuffed animals & pickled heads : the culture and evolution of natural history museums / Stephen T. Asma.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-288).
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N508.074/1
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0195130502
9780195130508 (alk. paper)
0195130502 (alk. paper)
9780195163360 (pbk.)
0195163362 (pbk.)
9780195130508
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508.074
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991013964089702626
