Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture of Natural History Museums [Audiobook] download free by Stephen T. Asma
- Listen audiobook: Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture of Natural History Museums
- Author: Stephen T. Asma
- Release date: 2003/4/25
- Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780195163360
- Rating: 7.76 of 10
- Votes: 362
- Review by: Makeda Bravo
- Review rating: 7.87 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/25
- Duration: 4H2M21S in 256 kbps (64 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-22
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, WMA Lossless, FLAC, Apple Lossless, MP3, WAV, MPEG4 (compression ZIP, CBZ, RAR, TAR)
- Total pages original book: 320
- Includes a PDF summary of 36 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 27M31S (7.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 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 Catherine 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. 'Rich in detail, lucid explanation, telling anecdotes, and fascinating characters...Asma has rendered a fascinating and credible account of how natural history museums are conceived and presented.It's the kind of book that will not only engage a wide and diverse readership, but it should, best of all, send them flocking to see how we look at nature and ourselves in those fabulous legacies of the curiosity cabinet.'-The Boston Herald.
- Other categories, genre or collection: History Of Science, Palaeontology, Impact Of Science & Technology On Society, Natural History Books, Museums & Museology, History: Specific Events & Topics
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 27.43 USD
- Dimensions: 154x234x21mm
- Weight: 504g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Oxford, United Kingdom
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