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Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums
Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums
Author: Stephen T. Asma
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 s...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195130508
ISBN-10: 0195130502
Publication Date: 4/5/2001
Pages: 302
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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