Preserved (miscellanea)
Print:
- Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit by Albert Farnham
- Walter Potter’s Curious World of Taxidermy by Patrick A. Morris & Joanna Ebenstein
Online:
- World Monument Fund
- World Monuments Watch List (annual list of endangered sites)
- Global Heritage Fund
- The Getty Conservation Institute – Publications & Resources
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
- UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Dried, Stuffed & Displayed: Making Art Out of Dead People
Print:
- The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing by Rachel Poliquin
- Cabinets of Wonder by Christine Davenne
- Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints From the Catacombs by Paul Koudounaris
Online:
Don’t Call it Salami: The Science of Delicious Preserved Meatstuffs
Print:
- Charcuterie by Michael Ruhlman
- Salumi by Michael Ruhlman
- What Einstein Told His Cook by Robert L. Wolke
- A16 Food + Wine by Nate Appleman
Preserving Film Archives (Or, Why Vinegar is Bad for the Animal of the Week)
Print:
- The History of the Steinhart Aquarium: A Very Fishy Tale by John McCosker
- Science on the Air: Popularizers and Personalities on Radio and Early Television by Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
Online:
- “The Film Preservation Guide” – National Film Preservation Foundation
- “Science in Action” – California Academy of Sciences
- “Science in Action episode list” – California Academy of Sciences
- “Science in Action on Internet Archive” – Internet Archive
- “Darwin’s finches” – Berkeley
- “1905-1906 Galapagos expedition field notes” — Biodiversity Heritage Library
- “Vinegar Syndrome” — Image Permanence Institute
Salvaged Spirits: Shipwreck Scotch & the World’s Oldest Wine
Print:
- Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages by Patrick E. McGovern
- Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture by Patrick E. McGovern and Robert G. Mondavi
- The Billionaire’s Vinegar by Benjamin Wallace
- Scotch On The Rocks : The True Story Behind Whisky Galore by Arthur Swinson
- Polly: The True Story Behind Whisky Galore by Roger Hutchinson
- Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie
Online:
- “The Beer Archaeologist” — Smithsonian.com
- “Aland shipwreck champagne” — Visit Aland
- “World’s oldest champagne opened” — BBC
- History of the 1913 shipwreck Regina — Shipwrecks.com
- “Whisky Galore” — YouTube
The Mummy’s Curse: Wrapped up in Myth
Print:
- The Mummy’s Curse: The True Story of a Dark Fantasy by Roger Luckhurst
- The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut’s Mummy by Jo Marchant
- Tutankhamun: The Search for an Egyptian King by Joyce Tyldesley
- The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen by Howard Carter
Online:
- “Entering King Tut’s Tomb, 1923” — Eyewitness to History
- Lord Carnarvon’s Egyptian collection
Headhunting, Tsantsas & How to Shrink a Human Head
Print:
- The Taking and Displaying of Human Body Parts as Trophies by Amerindians, by Richard J. Chacon
- Neurosurgery. 2004 Nov;55(5):1215-21. “The science of shrinking human heads: tribal warfare and revenge among the South American Jivaro-Shuar.” By Jandial R1, Hughes SA, Aryan HE, Marshall LF, Levy ML. Division of Neurosurgery, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California, USA.
- The Bioarchaeology of the Human Head: Decapitation, Decoration, and Deformation, by Michelle Bonogofsky
Online:
- “Shrunken Head DNA Proves Horrific Folklore True” – Discovery News
- “Head Shrinking and the Shuar of the Amazon Rainforest” – Wikinut
- Video: Human headshrinking ceremony in South America – National Geographic
- The Musket Wars – New Zealand in History
- “Mokomokai: Preserving the Past” – New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
- “Old, Weird Tech: Severed Head Life Support System Edition” – TheAtlantic.com
- “Amazingly Preserved Brain Discovered in 2,600-year-old Severed Head” – Slate.com
For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Sean Sanford, Daen de Leon, KC Crowell, and Hernan Pelassini. Thank you!
