‘There is not one single thing that resembles this one.’ Writing human monsters in late eighteenth-century Spain
The article discusses how a malformed set of twins turned into a museum object at the late eighteenth-century el Real Gabinete de Historia Natural in Madrid. Foregrounding the practices through which the twins transformed, it is made clear how museum objects result from de-centered processes. Two d...
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Language: | English |
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Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies
2014-06-01
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Series: | Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies |
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Online Access: | http://www.nordicsts.org/index.php/njsts/article/view/1201408/Ruud |