Ghosts behind glass : encountering extinction in museums
Dolly Jørgensen
Bok · Engelsk · 2025
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| Omfang | 264 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Prologue: ghost stories. Spectral encounters. Form and function ; Ordering and categorizing ; Ghost stories ; Through the glass -- Seeing ghosts. Hunting for ghosts ; Which ghost story to tell ; Hauntings in the treetops ; Uncertain histories -- Cursed treasures. Rare jewels ; Irreplaceable ; Remains ; The treasure's curse -- Haunted heritage. Dead as a dodo ; Extinction as heritage ; Ehime's icon ; Claiming ghosts -- Last remnants. The passing of passenger pigeons ; Martha's hauntings ; Inside out ; Back from the dead -- Broken relations. Giant broken eggs ; A striking pair ; Migrating to the museum ; The missing young -- Memorialized dead. Engraved names ; Putting faces to names ; Remembering the dead -- Playful figures. Swimming through the gallery ; Unanswered calls ; Push here ; Weaving lost threads ; Fair play -- Invisible dead. Ghost of a gecko ; Island spirits ; Invisible invertebrates ; Sealed fate? -- Epilogue: persistent presence.. - "Ghosts behind Glass is a moving exploration of displays of extinct animals in museums around the world. Dolly Jørgensen, a historian of the environment and technology, traveled to over seventy museums to walk their displays of extinct life, and she brings her expertise to this short, illustrated book of reflections. What do museum displays reveal about how we think and communicate about extinction? In a way that is, perhaps miraculously, both deeply sad and hopeful, Jørgensen thematically explores her encounters with what she calls the "ghosts behind glass." It would be easy to associate the contemporary extinction crisis with disappearance-after all, animal populations are rapidly disappearing-but this book instead turns our gaze to the ongoing presence of the extinct. Using a mix of historical storytelling and first-hand description, the chapters respectfully animate the remains of the extinct"--
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| ISBN | 9780226842301. - 9780226842646
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