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Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums

Science museums can be illuminating, exciting, and disturbing--just like the collectors that make them possible.

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Scholar Stephen T.

Asma turned his professional curiosity about preserving bodies into an engrossing, wide-ranging exploration of the nature of these places and their curators.

Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums brings a refreshing vitality to a subject usually thought boring, if not morbid.

Asma's writing ranges from expositive to chatty, and it occasionally feels like a travelogue or memoir, as he investigates the American Museum of Natural History, the Galerie d'anatomie comparée, and other collections in the U.S.

and Europe.

This informality keeps the reader engaged throughout.

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Author: Stephen T. Asma

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Date: Mar. 13, 2003

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