科学遗迹:自然历史和动物博物馆中的非人类尸体

IF 0.8 Q3 ANTHROPOLOGY
Natalia Schwien Scott
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摘要

自然历史博物馆是科学的教学陈列室。它们在当代生物科学的框架内运作——被认为是世俗的、无价值的、没有社会影响的。然而,我认为保存和展示身体的实践不仅具有认识论谱系,而且具有本体论谱系。在本文中,我考虑了保存尸体在天主教和自然历史博物馆的功能,探索各自发展的相关性,收集方法,文件和展示,以及人类和非人类尸体之间关系的背景。通过这种研究,我认为,就像圣人的残片遗骸一样,这些重建的非人类身体表现出一种新的遗物,通过它们自己的复活、重建和与物质接触的奇迹般的愈合的特殊力量,将过去和现在编织在一起。
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The Relics of Science: Nonhuman Bodies in Natural History and Zoological Museums

The Relics of Science: Nonhuman Bodies in Natural History and Zoological Museums

The Relics of Science: Nonhuman Bodies in Natural History and Zoological Museums

The Relics of Science: Nonhuman Bodies in Natural History and Zoological Museums

Natural history museums function as pedagogical showrooms for science. They operate within the contemporary framework of the biological sciences—presented as secular, value-free, and devoid of social influence. However, I argue the practice of preserving and displaying bodies carries not only an epistemological lineage but also an ontological one. In this paper, I consider the function of preserved bodies in both Catholicism and natural history museums, exploring correlations in their respective developments, methods of collection, documentation, and presentation, as well as the contexts of relationality between human people and nonhuman dead bodies. Through this examination, I argue that, much like the fragmentary remains of saints, these reconstructed nonhuman bodies manifest a new kind of relic, weaving together the past and present through their own special powers of resurrection, reconstitution, and miraculous healing through the engagement with materiality.

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Museum Anthropology
Museum Anthropology ANTHROPOLOGY-
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0.80
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期刊介绍: Museum Anthropology seeks to be a leading voice for scholarly research on the collection, interpretation, and representation of the material world. Through critical articles, provocative commentaries, and thoughtful reviews, this peer-reviewed journal aspires to cultivate vibrant dialogues that reflect the global and transdisciplinary work of museums. Situated at the intersection of practice and theory, Museum Anthropology advances our knowledge of the ways in which material objects are intertwined with living histories of cultural display, economics, socio-politics, law, memory, ethics, colonialism, conservation, and public education.
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