Bone Rooms : From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums / Samuel J. Redman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Redman, Samuel J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human remains (Archaeology)--United States.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Human remains (Archaeology)--Racial analysis--History.

Archaeological museums and collections--United States--History--19th century.

Archaeological museums and collections.

Archaeological museums and collections--United States--History--20th century.

Archaeological museums and collections--Moral and ethical aspects.

Archaeology--United States--History.

Archaeology.

Racism in anthropology--United States--History.

Racism in anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 25 halftones

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In the bone rooms of the Smithsonian Institution and other museums in the late nineteenth century, a scientific revolution was unfolding, as collectors engaged in a global competition to recover the best human skeletons, mummies, fossils. Study of these remains led to the discrediting of racial theory and the search for human origins and evolution.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prologue

1. Collecting Bodies for Science

2. Salvaging Race and Remains

3. The Medical Body on Display

4. The Story of Man through the Ages

5. Scientific Racism and Museum Remains

6. Skeletons and Human Prehistory

Epilogue

Notes. Acknowledgments. Index

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Jan. 23, 2017)

ISBN:

0-674-96971-5

OCLC:

984688453