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Author Asma, Stephen T.

Title Stuffed animals & pickled heads : the culture and evolution of natural history museums / Stephen T. Asma.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 302 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-288) and index.
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.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Natural history museums.
Natural history museums.
Natural history -- Exhibitions -- Design.
Natural history -- Exhibitions.
Design.
Natural history.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Added Title Stuffed animals and pickled heads
Other Form: Print version: Asma, Stephen T. Stuffed animals & pickled heads. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001 0195130502 9780195130508 (DLC) 00040674 (OCoLC)44128187
ISBN 9780195347463 (electronic book)
0195347463 (electronic book)
0195130502 (alkaline paper)
9780195130508 (alkaline paper)