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Bone Rooms - From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums (Paperback)
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Bone Rooms - From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums (Paperback)
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A Smithsonian Book of the Year A Nature Book of the Year "Provides
much-needed foundation of the relationship between museums and
Native Americans." -Smithsonian In 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
building bone rooms. Today, as a new generation seeks to learn
about the indigenous past, momentum is building to return objects
of spiritual significance to native peoples. "A beautifully
written, meticulously documented analysis of [this] little-known
history." -Brian Fagan, Current World Archeology "How did our
museums become great storehouses of human remains? Bone Rooms
chases answers...through shifting ideas about race, anatomy,
anthropology, and archaeology and helps explain recent ethical
standards for the collection and display of human dead." -Ann
Fabian, author of The Skull Collectors "Details the nascent views
of racial science that evolved in U.S. natural history,
anthropological, and medical museums...Redman effectively portrays
the remarkable personalities behind [these debates]...pitting the
prickly Ales Hrdlicka at the Smithsonian...against
ally-turned-rival Franz Boas at the American Museum of Natural
History." -David Hurst Thomas, Nature
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