![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What kind of person would do such a thing? In the course of the book, Rosenbloom attempts to answer the instinctual, disgust-ridden “Why?” with a sincere answer. In response, some readers have expressed shocked disgust that anyone could want to make or own such an object. As of the book’s publication in March 2020, the project confirmed that seventeen of these books were genuine. The Anthropodermic Book project has identified about fifty alleged anthropodermic books in research libraries, museums, and private hands. Yet among the ethical questions that researchers can ask themselves, one of the most troubling might be “should this object have been made at all? And what do I do about that now?” Librarian Megan Rosenbloom’s research tackles these kinds of controversial objects: her book discusses anthropodermic bibliopegy, or books bound in human skin.ĭark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin documents Rosenbloom and her colleagues at The Anthropodermic Book Project’s mission to understand these polarizing objects. Archivists, historians, librarians, and researchers all confront ethical concerns in the course of research. ![]()
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