{"id":766,"date":"2008-01-24T08:54:27","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T08:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=766"},"modified":"2014-03-07T09:41:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T14:41:11","slug":"secret-wunderkammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=766","title":{"rendered":"Secret Wunderkammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A decade or so ago I bought a print version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Secret-Museum-Mankind-David-Stiffler\/dp\/0879059125\"><b>The Secret Museum of Mankind<\/b><\/a>, a treasury of sorta-ethnographic curiosa of the sort that I lingered over as a boy (and perhaps their rampant exoticism was a big part of why I became an anthropologist&#8211; that and living down the street from Harvard&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peabody.harvard.edu\/\">Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology<\/a>, wherein I studied as an undergraduate). Boing Boing informs us that Ian Mackie has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/01\/23\/the-secret-museum-of.html\">scanned the whole thing<\/a>. He&#8217;s done a beautiful job of it, and pretty much <a href=\"http:\/\/ian.macky.net\/secretmuseum\/page_3.5.html\">any<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ian.macky.net\/secretmuseum\/page_3.10.html\">place<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ian.macky.net\/secretmuseum\/page_3.13.html\">you<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ian.macky.net\/secretmuseum\/page_4.5.html\">start<\/a> will insure a <a href=\"http:\/\/ian.macky.net\/secretmuseum\/page_4.23.html\">therapeutic<\/a> time-out from what you were <i>supposed<\/i> to be doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade or so ago I bought a print version of The Secret Museum of Mankind, a treasury of sorta-ethnographic curiosa of the sort that I lingered over as a boy (and perhaps their rampant exoticism was a big part of why I became an anthropologist&#8211; that and living down the street from Harvard&#8217;s Peabody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2631,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}