Mummified

The Stories Behind Egyptian Mummies in Museums

Angela Stienne (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2022
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
9781526161895 (ISBN)

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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 racial studies and DNA-tested in modern laboratories, there is a lot more to these ancient remains than first meets the eye. -- .

The unsettling stories of how Egyptian mummies came to be held in British and French museums.

We all know what a mummy is – or do we? In Mummified, Angela Stienne explores the little-known stories behind the Ancient Egyptian remains displayed in British and French museums.

Taking the reader on a journey between Egypt, Paris and London, Stienne exposes a murky world of grave-robbing, theft and black-market deals over human remains. Mummies have been unrolled in public, dissected for race studies and even eaten for their supposed health-giving properties. But does the fact they are thousands of years old mean they can be treated as objects, or do we owe them the same respect we would any other human body?

Investigating matters of life and death and the ethics of collection and display, Mummified offers a fresh perspective on these ancient bodies, which have fascinated Europeans for centuries. -- .

Dr Angela Stienne is a cultural historian, museum researcher and storyteller. In 2016 she created the website Mummy Stories, which aims to reshape the discussion around human remains in museums by collecting people's stories of their own encounters. -- .

Foreword by John J. Johnston
Prologue
Introduction: The mummy
1 The mummy as medicine, the mummy in medicine
2 The displayed mummy, the displaced body
3 Mummies buried in a garden, and other incidents
4 The mummy’s foot
5 Mummies unrolled
6 The White mummy
7 The (White) mummy returns
8 The mummy of the future
Epilogue

Index -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	19.07.2021
Zusatzinfo	30 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	404 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Reisen ► Reiseführer
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-13	9781526161895 / 9781526161895
Zustand	Neuware