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Stuffed animals & pickled heads : the culture and evolution of natural history museums
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Stuffed animals & pickled heads : the culture and evolution of natural history museums

著者: Stephen T Asma
出版商: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 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 fun.".
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类型/形式: Exhibitions
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附加的形体格式: Online version:
Asma, Stephen T.
Stuffed animals & pickled heads.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001
(OCoLC)646945731
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所有的著者/提供者: Stephen T Asma
ISBN: 0195130502 9780195130508
OCLC号码: 44128187
描述: xv, 302 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
内容: Flesh-eating Beetles and the Secret Art of Taxidermy --
Peter the Great's Mysterious Fars: How to Pickle a Human Head and Other Great Achievements of the Scientific Revolution --
Taxonomic Intoxication, Part I: Visualizing the Invisible --
Taxonomic Intoxication, Part II: In Search of the Engine Room --
Exhibiting Evolution: Diversity, Order, and the Construction of Nature --
Evolution and the Roulette Wheel: A Chance Cosmos Rattles Some Bones --
Drama in Diorama: The Confederation of Art and Science.
责任: 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 is 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 and Paris, interviewing curators, scientists, and exhibit designers, and providing a wealth of fascinating observations. We learn how the first museums were little more than high-toned side shows, with such garish exhibits as the pickled head of Peter the Great's lover. In contrast, today's museums are hot-beds of serious science, funding major research in such fields as anthropology and archaeology. Asma also points out that these museums actively shape our perception of nature, and that these efforts are swayed as much by politics as by science.

In countless exhibits, for instance, the idea of the traditional human and nuclear family is evident in displays of everything from extinct animals to grizzly bears (in nature, alas, the male bear is more likely to devour its young than to nurture them)." "Where else but at a natural history museum could you find a T. rex, a high-tech planetarium, a Native American totem pole, and flesh-eating beetles - all under one roof. And in Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads, Stephen Asma reveals that what we don't see - the scientific research that is going on backstage - is just as fascinating as the exhibits on display."--BOOK JACKET.

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