Bone rooms : from scientific racism to human prehistory in museums / Samuel J. Redman.
"This book explores human remains as objects for research and display in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Influenced by early skull collectors such as Samuel George Morton, zealous scientists at museums in the United States established human skeletal collections. Museums such...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England :
Harvard University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Collecting bodies for science
- Salvaging race and remains
- The medical body on display
- The story of man through the ages
- Scientific racism and museum remains
- Skeletons and human prehistory.