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Mummified: The Stories Behind Egyptian Mummies in Museums | Angela Stienne
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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.
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This was a readable & engaging look at how human remains have been stolen, plundered, disregarded & exploited under the banner of science, of colonialism & of a fascination with ‘other‘The second half of the book looses some pace and revisits the big ideas. I wish there was a stronger element of activism in her writing. That‘s a testament to how powerfully she told the stories of these peoples body‘s that raised the need to see things put right.

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I have always had a deep fascination with mummies and perceived them as a direct connection to history. This is a real person, that lived! In Mummified, Stienne problematizes the mummy and the realities of human remains on open display. Deeply fascinating in a way that had me interrogating personal feelings and coming up against cultural blindspots.