Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums Redman Samuel J.
A Smithsonian Book of the YearA Nature Book of the Year "Provides much-needed foundation of the relationship between museums and Native Americans." --SmithsonianIn 1864 a US Army doctor dug up the…
Specifikacia Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums Redman Samuel J.
A Smithsonian Book of the YearA Nature Book of the Year "Provides much-needed foundation of the relationship between museums and Native Americans." --SmithsonianIn 1864 a US Army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota and sent the skeleton to a museum in Washington that was collecting human remains for research. In the "bone rooms" of the Smithsonian, a scientific revolution was unfolding that would change our understanding of the human body, race, and prehistory.Seeking evidence to support new theories of racial classification, collectors embarked on a global competition to recover the best specimens of skeletons, mummies, and fossils. As the study of these discoveries discredited racial theory, new ideas emerging in the budding field of anthropology displaced race as the main motive for