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Motel of the Mysteries
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"David Macaulay . . . is a superb craftsman and an imaginative writer and illustrator . . . His new book is a marvel of imagination and a comfortable satire. He projects a time when our civilization will have been buried . . . As always with Mr. Macaulay's books, wonderfully illustrated." The New York Times
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About the Author
David Macaulay is an award-winning author and illustrator whose books have sold millions of copies in the United States alone, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages. Macaulay has garnered numerous awards including the Caldecott Medal and Honor Awards, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Christopher Award, an American Institute of Architects Medal, and the Washington Post–Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award. In 2006, he was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, given “to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations.” Superb design, magnificent illustrations, and clearly presented information distinguish all of his books. David Macaulay lives with his family in Vermont.
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Age Range: 12 and up
Grade Level: 7 - 9
Lexile Measure: 1270L (What's this?)
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Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers; Later Printing edition (October 11, 1979)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0395284252
ISBN-13: 978-0395284254
Product Dimensions:
8.3 x 0.4 x 11 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.6 out of 5 stars
150 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#57,522 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
It's humor/satire in the best tradition - something that pokes fun at (some would say skewers) those who tend to take themselves far too seriously. In this case we're talking about archeologists, but even at that it's limited to those who make too many intellectual leaps from the available evidence. By that I mean those scientists who tend to input too much in the way of fiction or story telling to artifacts.It's done so gently, but the tone is spot on - the same pronouncements done with no doubt whatsoever and yet objectively wrong. We have the benefit here of knowing what the actual truth is, which is where the humor is grounded. Macaulay really has done a good job in this parody of a serious scientific work, so much so that one kind of wonders what the *real* story is when reading, oh, the latest paleontological findings or other similar papers. This isn't to say that all science is wrong - not at all - but only to wonder what if science doesn't necessarily know what it thinks it knows And again, I'm talking about scientists who go a bit too far in their theorizing.I like this book - a lot. It's a fun parody.
This is a story about a man who discovers the United States - years after it disappeared mysteriously into the mists of time.As this scientist and his crew uncover many ancient artifacts, they do their best to piece together how various items were used in this ancient culture. Their conviction that the motel they've discovered is an ancient burial ground colors their interpretation of every item that they find.Macaulay's illustrations bring the text to life, allowing the reader to see the humor it what is going on - Macauley is able to reference various items they've discovered by the name given them by the scientists, but the illustrations show us what it is that they've really found. (e.g., the pictures show us that the "Sacred Collar" worn at the final burial ceremony is actually a toilet seat.)Of course, what Macauley really does, and does brilliantly, is point out how arrogant it is for us to assume that we can piece together an entire culture's way of life by analyzing a few odds and ends and giving them purposes, even though we have no way to determining whether what we've decided is true is actually true."Motel of the Mysteries" is an excellent reminder to keep our perspective as we study ancient cultures and peoples - a reminder that scientists are fallible humans like anyone else.
I was looking for some anthropology book and I stumbled upon this book, I bought it without reading the reviews. My take was that this book is written in future and goes through things in the past. However as I started reading I found it boring but as I continued I couldn't stop laughing.While this book may seem funny what I found great about this book is that it made me think... what if we are looking at things from the past in similar fashion?What if what we know about the past is really not what it was?A great read and rather a creative one. I love how he explains what shower was used for and same goes for the plunger which made me LOL!!
What will our world look like to future archaeologists? In this book David Macaulay takes a humorous look at the possibilities as our descendants explore an ancient motel and mistake a toilet seat for a headdress and so on.It's cute, nothing great but cute. And Macaulay's illustrations are always cool.
This should be required reading for every archeology student, this is a very very funny look at ruins. We still use a lot of the terms from here such as 'sacred point', 'sacred urn' and the 'plant that would not die'.... great fun. Lots of illustrations as you would find in a field journal.
An archeological study of an excavated motel, representing the ancient lost civilization of the USA... Gives a satirical look at how scholars might misinterpret elements of the prehistoric past. (Formica as a valuable substance?) A good introduction to archeological studies, and the necessity for keeping an open mind..
Macaulay's Motel of the Mysteries is a classic, hilarious send-up of archaeological investigation and interpretation, in which anything we don't understand is interpreted as having had religious significance. Written in the same style as old National Geographic articles (especially the classic coverage of Howard Carter's opening of Tutankhamen's tomb), it presents a comically garbled interpretation of a 20th Century motel that is excavated centuries later, only to be mis-interpreted as a tomb complex. The misunderstanding of toilet seats and sanitation tags (a la old Holiday Inns), complete with impressive but ridiculous artistic recreations of their ancient ceremonial use, is especially funny. Anyone who has ever studied archaeology should be able to appreciate (and be cautioned by) Macaulay's story.
This is still as funny and thought provoking as it was when it first came out. Suppose you were an archaeologist hundreds of years in the future, and found the remains of a cheap motel. Especially funny is the illustration of the woman assistant wearing the toilet seat around her neck, under the title "ritual jewelry".
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