Ghosts Behind Glass : Encountering Extinction in Museums

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Ghosts Behind Glass : Encountering Extinction in Museums

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 280 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780226842646
  • DDC分類 591.68

Full Description

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 Dolly Jørgensen visits natural history collections worldwide—from Shanghai to Philadelphia, from Edinburgh to Hobart, Australia—to understand the many ways that museums tell stories about extinction. She encounters extinct animals that are framed as cultural artifacts and as rare valuables, that are memorialized with lists, and that are brought to life through augmented reality. She draws our attention to creatures with prominent afterlives—passenger pigeons, giant moas, thylacines—as well as those that are less likely to be discussed or displayed. Throughout, Jørgensen examines the relationship between museums and the natural world, so readers can look more closely at exhibits about extinction, studying the displays for what is there, as well as what is missing. During a period of rapid species loss driven by humanity's environmental impact, Ghosts Behind Glass asks what we can learn about our world from the presence of the extinct.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Prologue: Ghost Stories

Chapter 1: Spectral Encounters
Form and Function
Ordering and Categorizing
Ghost Stories
Through the Glass

Chapter 2: Seeing Ghosts
Hunting for Ghosts
Which Ghost Story to Tell
Hauntings in the Treetops
Uncertain Histories

Chapter 3: Cursed Treasures
Rare Jewels
Irreplaceable Remains
The Treasure's Curse

Chapter 4: Haunted Heritage
Dead as a Dodo
Extinction as Heritage
Ehime's Icon
Claiming Ghosts

Chapter 5: Last Remnants
The Passing of Passenger Pigeons
Martha's Hauntings
Inside Out
Back from the Dead

Chapter 6: Broken Relations
Giant Broken Eggs
A Striking Pair
Migrating to the Museum
The Missing Young

Chapter 7: Memorialized Dead
Engraved Names
Putting Faces to Names
Remembering the Dead

Chapter 8: Playful Figures
Swimming Through the Gallery
Unanswered Calls
Push Here
Weaving Lost Threads
Fair Play

Chapter 9: Invisible Dead
Ghost of a Gecko
Island Spirits
Invisible Invertebrates
Sealed Fate?

Epilogue: Persistent Presence

Acknowledgments
Appendix: Ghosts Encountered
Notes to Sources
Index

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