Bears like us: Blurring species boundaries through embodied experiences of museum skeleton specimen preparation
Sign Up to like & getrecommendations! Published in 2025 at "Journal of Material Culture"
DOI: 10.1177/13591835251384875
Abstract: Though regional Indigenous concepts of nonhuman personhood have always known that bears are people, traditional Western museum specimen collections reify differences between humans and bears that embodied experiences contradict. The interspecies material blurriness of bone… read more here.
Keywords: embodied experiences; museum; specimen preparation; skeleton specimen ... See more keywords