Stuffed animals & pickled heads : the culture and evolution of natural history museums /
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| Author / Creator: | Asma, Stephen T. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. |
| Description: | xv, 302 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4411306 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Flesh-eating Beetles and the Secret Art of Taxidermy
- Chapter 2. Peter the Great's Mysterious Fars: How to Pickle a Human Head and Other Great Achievements of the Scientific Revolution
- Chapter 3. Taxonomic Intoxication, Part I: Visualizing the Invisible
- Chapter 4. Taxonomic Intoxication, Part II: In Search of the Engine Room
- Chapter 5. Exhibiting Evolution: Diversity, Order, and the Construction of Nature
- Chapter 6. Evolution and the Roulette Wheel: A Chance Cosmos Rattles Some Bones
- Chapter 7. Drama in Diorama: The Confederation of Art and Science
- Notes and Further Reading
- Index
