Elephants Are Not Picked from Trees : Animal Biographies in the Gothenburg Museum of Natural History /

"The book examines how the museum acquired animals for its exhibits from 1906 to 1948, and how living animals bodies became museum exhibits. Using photographs and documents from the Gothenburg Natural History Museum, the book shows that these museums are in possession of valuable material for w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Thorsen, Liv Emma (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: Göteborgs naturhistoriska museum
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Göteborgs naturhistoriska museum.
Göteborgs naturhistoriska museum > History.
Zoological specimens > Collection and preservation.
Natural history museums.
Sciences naturelles > Musees > Suede > Göteborg > Histoire.
Zoologie > Specimens > Collections et conservation > Suede > Göteborg.
Natural history museums > Sweden > Göteborg > History.
Zoological specimens > Collection and preservation > Sweden > Göteborg.
Sweden > Göteborg.
Göteborg (Sweden)
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"The book examines how the museum acquired animals for its exhibits from 1906 to 1948, and how living animals bodies became museum exhibits. Using photographs and documents from the Gothenburg Natural History Museum, the book shows that these museums are in possession of valuable material for writing the cultural history of animals, and that the museums of natural history display a nature that is historically, socially and culturally construed."--Page 4 of cover
Descripción Física:1 online resource (256 pages): illustrations (some color)
ISBN:9788771840827

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