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The Skull Collectors - Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead (Paperback)
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The Skull Collectors - Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead (Paperback)
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When Philadelphia naturalist Samuel George Morton died in 1851, no
one cut off his head, boiled away its flesh, and added his grinning
skull to a collection of crania. It would have been strange, but
perhaps fitting, had Morton's skull wound up in a collector's
cabinet, for Morton himself had collected hundreds of skulls over
the course of a long career. Friends, diplomats, doctors, soldiers,
and fellow naturalists sent him skulls they gathered from
battlefields and burial grounds across America and around the
world. With The Skull Collectors, eminent historian Ann Fabian
resurrects that popular and scientific movement, telling the
strange-and at times gruesome-story of Morton, his contemporaries,
and their search for a scientific foundation for racial difference.
From cranial measurements and museum shelves to heads on stakes,
bloody battlefields, and the "rascally pleasure" of grave robbing,
Fabian paints a lively picture of scientific inquiry in service of
an agenda of racial superiority, and of a society coming to grips
with both the deadly implications of manifest destiny and the mass
slaughter of the Civil War. Even as she vividly recreates the past,
Fabian also deftly traces the continuing implications of this
history, from lingering traces of scientific racism to debates over
the return of the remains of Native Americans that are held by
museums to this day. Full of anecdotes, oddities, and insights, The
Skull Collectors takes readers on a darkly fascinating trip down a
little-visited but surprisingly important byway of American
history.
General
Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2020 |
First published: |
2010 |
Authors: |
Ann Fabian
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-76057-5 |
Categories: |
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Humanities >
History >
General
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History >
General
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LSN: |
0-226-76057-X |
Barcode: |
9780226760575 |
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