@article{1480482, author = {Redman, Samuel J., }, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1480482}, title = {Bone Rooms : From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums /}, abstract = {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.}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674969711}, recid = {1480482}, pages = {1 online resource (408 p.) :}, }