Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums

by Stephen T. Asma

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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 in these great institutions than just smart fun.
Asma takes us on a wide-ranging tour of natural history museums in New York and Chicago, London...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195163362

ISBN13:9780195163360

Release Date:May 2003

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:320 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Related Subjects

Arts, Music & Photography Biological Sciences Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions History History & Philosophy Humanities Nature Nature & Ecology Paleontology Science

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