Angela Stienne

Mummified (eBook, ePUB)

The stories behind Egyptian mummies in museums

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Mummified explores the curious, unsettling and controversial cases of mummies held in French and British museums. From powdered mummies eaten as medicine to mummies unrolled in public, dissected for race studies and DNA-tested in modern laboratories, there is a lot more to these ancient remains than first meets the eye. This book takes you on a journey from Paris to London, Leicester and Manchester, from the apothecaries of the Middle Ages to the dissecting tables of the eighteenth century, and finally behind the screen of today's computers, to revisit the stories of these bodies that have fascinated Europeans for so long.

Mummified investigates matters of life and death, of collecting and viewing, and of interactions - sometimes violent and sometimes emotional - that question the essence of what makes us human.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526161901
• Artikelnr.: 64089907

Autorenporträt

Dr Angela Stienne is a cultural historian, museum researcher and storyteller. She is the founder of Mummy Stories, an online platform inviting the public to engage with questions of ethics in museums.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by John J. JohnstonPrologue1 The mummy as medicine, the mummy in medicine2 The displayed mummy, the displaced body3 Mummies buried in a garden, and other incidents4 The mummys foot5 Mummies unrolled6 The white mummy7 The white mummy returns8 The mummy of the futureEpilogueSuggested further readingBibliographyIndex