Speculative Taxidermy

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  1. RECONFIGURING ANIMAL SKINS269

  2. Dufresne 1803:509.

  3. T. E. Bowditch 1820, Taxidermy or, the Art of Collecting, Preparing and Mounting Ob-
    jects of Natural History for the Use of Museums and Travellers (London: Longman,
    Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown), 4.

  4. Morris 2010:78.

  5. R. W. Shufeldt 1892, “Scientific Taxidermy for Museums,” Report of National Mu-
    seum, 373.

  6. Morris 2010:108–109.

  7. Ibid., 5. Also M. Patchett 2006, “Animal as Object: Taxidermy and the Charting of Af-
    terlives,” paper presented at Making Animal Afterlives, Hunterian Zoology Museum,
    University of Glasgow, November.

  8. G. Marvin 2006, “Perpetuating Polar Bears: The Cultural Life of Dead Animals,” in B.
    Snæbjörnsdóttir and M. Wilson 2006, Nanoq: Flat Out and Bluesome: A Cultural Life
    of Polar Bears (London: Black Dog), 157. His argument is substantially informed by that
    of K. Verdery 1999, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change
    (New York: Columbia University Press).

  9. Marvin 2006.

  10. A. Appadurai, ed. 1988, The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective
    (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

  11. Ibid., 3–63.

  12. M. Heidegger 1927, Being and Time (New York: State University of New York Press,
    1996), 70.

  13. L. Stein 1927, The A-B-C of Aesthetics (New York: Boni and Liveright), 72, referenced in
    B. Brown 2001, “Thing Theory,” Critical Inquiry 28, no. 1 (Autumn): 3.

  14. Brown 2001:4.

  15. K. Marx 1867, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, vol. 1 (Moscow: Progress, 2010), 26.

  16. Ibid., 125.

  17. Ibid., 258.

  18. Ibid., 125.

  19. M. Foucault 1981, “The Order of Discourse,” in R. Young, ed., Untying the Text: A Post-
    Structuralist Reader (London: Routledge, 2006), 70–71.

  20. M. Foucault 1980, “Two Lectures,” in C. Gordon, ed., Power/Knowledge: Selected Inter-
    views and Other Writings, 1972–1977 (Brighton: Harvester), 85.

  21. Foucault 1966:77.

  22. Morris 2010:25.

  23. J. Petiver 1696, “Brief Instructions for the Easy Making and Preserving Collections of
    All Natural Curiosities,” appendix in J. Petiver, Musei Petiveriani Centuria Secunda &
    Tertia Rariora Naturae Continens (London).

  24. R. A. F. de Réaumur 1748, “Divers Means for Preserving from Corruption Dead Birds,
    Intended to Be Sent to Remote Countries, So That They May Arrive There in a Good
    Condition. Some of the Same Means May Be Employed for Preserving Quadrupeds,
    Reptiles, Fishes, and Insects,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of Lon-
    don 45, 304–320.

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