Episode 98: Curious George (2006)

Curious George (2006) tells the tail of the beloved eponymous monkey (sic) and reimagines (and sanitizes) The Man in the Yellow Hat as an archaeologist. This movie sets up a thoughtful and nuanced take on archaeological ethics and neocolonialism, and then says “Fuck it, it belongs in museum after all.” But George is soooo cuuuute!

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In this episode:

The History of Curious George: https://www.curiousgeorge.com/history/

Nicholas Wade (2007). In Lice, Clues to Human Origin and Attire. New York Times: https://cell2soul.typepad.com/cell2soul_blog/files/Lice.pdf

Aiello and Wheeler (1995). The Expensive Tissue Hypothesis. Current Anthropology: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/204350

Richard Wrangham (2009). Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. Profile Books: https://dn790008.ca.archive.org/0/items/pdfy-DDoNCJJ_Wt0qOH7e/Catching%20Fire%20%5BHow%20Cooking%20Made%20Us%20Human%5D.pdf

Ann Nicgorski (2006). Curious George’s Bad Example. Archaeology Magazine: https://archive.archaeology.org/online/reviews/curious.html

Curious George and the Looted Idol (2006). Archaeology Magazine:

https://archive.archaeology.org/0605/news/insider.html

Alfred Russel Wallace: https://wallacefund.myspecies.info/content/biography-wallace

Kirk Wallace Johnson (2018) The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century. Penguin Random House: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44153387-the-feather-thief

Jim Corbett: https://www.corbettnationalpark.in/corbett-heritage.htm

Clovis Culture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture