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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

Author: Stephen T Asma
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
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Genre/Form: Exhibitions
Expositions
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Asma, Stephen T.
Stuffed animals & pickled heads.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001
(OCoLC)646945731
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Stephen T Asma
ISBN: 0195130502 9780195130508
OCLC Number: 44128187
Description: xv, 302 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: Stephen T. Asma.
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