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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Stuffed animals & pickled heads
  title info:
    sub title: The culture and evolution of natural history museums
  title info: title
  name:
    name part: Asma, Stephen T.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Stephen T. Asma
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2001
    date issued: 9999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: und
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 302 p.
    extent: ill.
    extent: 25 cm
  abstract: 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 Peter 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. Asma also points out that these museums actively shape our perception of nature, and that these efforts are swayed as much by politics as by science. In countless exhibits, for instance, the idea of the traditional nuclear family is evident in displays of everything from extinct animals to grizzly bears (in nature, alas, the male bear is more likely to devour its young than to nurture them)
  note: Stephen T. Asma
  subject:
    topic: Natural history; Natural history museums
  classification: 508.074
  classification: ST206
  identifier: 0195130502
  identifier: 9780195130508
  record info:
    record creation date: 210423
    record identifier: TVU_11839