Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226842301ISBN-10:226842304UPC:9780226842301Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Life Sciences, Natural History, HistoryBook Topic:ZoologySize:7.70 x 5.80 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCG950DWE7
Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums
How museums display extinct species--and what these exhibits say about us. While it's no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The remains of extinct species--whether taxidermied, skeletal, drawn, or sculpted--stare back at us from display cases. In this moving meditation on what's lost and what endures, environmental historian...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226842301ISBN-10:226842304UPC:9780226842301Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Life Sciences, Natural History, HistoryBook Topic:ZoologySize:7.70 x 5.80 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCG950DWE7
Dolly Jørgensen is professor of history at the University of Stavanger and coeditor in chief of the journal Environmental Humanities. She is the author of Recovering Lost Species in the Modern Age: Histories of Longing and Belonging and The Medieval Pig and the coeditor of several volumes, including Sharing Spaces: Technology, Mediation, and Human-Animal Relationships. In 2025 she won the Gad...
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