This comprehensive history of museums begins with the origins of collecting in prehistory
and traces the evolution of museums from grave goods to treasure troves, from the …

Danish Folktales, Legends, and Other Stories is a collection of translated and annotated
Nordic folklore that presents full repertoires of five storytellers along with extensive archival …

Ein Vogel lässt sich beschreiben: seine Farbe, sein Verhalten, der Eindruck auf den
Beschauer; die bevorzugte Nahrung, die Stimme; die Struktur des Skeletts, die Textur des …

The article concentrates on the widespread belief in the phenomenon of 'thunderbolts'.
Stone artefacts like Stone Age axes, adzes, chisels, daggers, sickles, spear-and arrowheads …

Geopharmaceuticals have a recorded history of use by a wide range of cultures for over
3000 years. The history of geological simples is written in the leaves of a diversity of literary …

Although more museums are opening now than at any time in the past, too little attention has
been paid to the concrete ways in which cultural processes of commoditisation affect …

The proverbial difficulty of listing all the things that space engenders knickknacks,
miscellaneous utensils, odds and ends swept along narrow streets and main arteries by a …

Drawing on actor-network theory and theories of performance, this article discusses gift-
giving as an expansive form of materializing relationships and delimiting boundaries …

Despite popular and scientific interest in mummies, very few studies of ancient Egyptian
mummy collections, especially from the same area, have been conducted. As such, this …

Abstract Ole Worm, Professor of Medicine at Copenhagen University 1624–1654, collected
natural objects and artefacts with a view to letting students learn through observation and …