Title
Bone Rooms : From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums / Samuel J. Redman.
ISBN
9780674969711
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (408 p.) : 25 halftones
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674969711 doi
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.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)
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
