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Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums
By Redman, Samuel J.
- ISBN
- 9780674660410
- Publisher
- Harvard Univ.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on March 15, 2016 | Science and Technology
Redman (history, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst) covers a lot of ground in this academic work, which documents the evolution of physical anthropology in the United States since the late 19th century and how theories of racial classification and human anatomy were studied and displayed in museums during that time. Mummified corpses discovered in the American West in the 1870s fascinated the public and spurred scientists to exp...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
