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

• Nicholas Wade (2007). In Lice, Clues to Human Origin and Attire. New York Times

• Aiello and Wheeler (1995). The Expensive Tissue Hypothesis. Current Anthropology

• Richard Wrangham (2009). Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. Profile Books

• Ann Nicgorski (2006). Curious George’s Bad Example. Archaeology Magazine

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

• Alfred Russel Wallace

• Kirk Wallace Johnson (2018) The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century. Penguin Random House

• Jim Corbett

• Clovis Culture