Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums by Stephen T. Asma

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

Stephen T. Asma

320 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
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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 S...

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