Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads
Subtitle: The Culture of Natural History Museums
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: April 5, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780195130508
First sentence: COLLECTING AND DISPLAYING natural history specimens is a more complex and dramatic activity than most museum visitors appreciate.
Table of contents: pagenum: ix
class: part
title: Acknowledgments; pagenum: xi
class: part
title: Introduction; pagenum: 3
title: Flesh-eating Beetles and the Secret Art of Taxidermy
class: chapter
label: 1; pagenum: 47
label: 2
class: chapter
title: Peter the Great's Mysterious Jars: How to Pickle a Human Head and Other Great Achievements of the Scientific Revolution; pagenum: 77
label: 3
class: chapter
title: Taxonomic Intoxication, Part I: Visualizing the Invisible; pagenum: 114
title: Taxonomic Intoxication, Part II: In Search of the Engine Room
class: chapter
label: 4; pagenum: 154
title: Exhibiting Evolution: Diversity, Order, and the Construction of Nature
class: chapter
label: 5; pagenum: 202
label: 6
class: chapter
title: Evolution and the Roulette Wheel: A Chance Cosmos Rattles Some Bones; pagenum: 240
label: 7
class: chapter
title: Drama in Diorama: The Confederation of Art and Science; pagenum: 277
class: part
title: Notes and Further Reading; pagenum: 289
class: part
title: Index