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Bone Rooms - From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums (Hardcover)
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Bone Rooms - From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums (Hardcover)
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A Smithsonian Top History Book of the Year A Nature Book of the
Year "How did our museums become great storehouses of human
remains? What have we learned from the skulls and bones of unburied
dead? Bone Rooms chases answers to these questions 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 In 1864 a
US Army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been
killed in Minnesota. Carefully recording his observations, he sent
the skeleton to a museum in Washington, DC, that was collecting
human remains for research. In the "bone rooms" of this museum and
others like it, a scientific revolution was unfolding that would
change our understanding of the human body, race, and prehistory.
In Bone Rooms Samuel Redman unearths the story of how human remains
became highly sought-after artifacts for both scientific research
and public display. Seeking evidence to support new theories of
human evolution and racial classification, collectors embarked on a
global competition to recover the best specimens of skeletons,
mummies, and fossils. The Smithsonian Institution built the largest
collection of human remains in the United States, edging out stiff
competition from natural history and medical museums springing up
in cities and on university campuses across America. When the San
Diego Museum of Man opened in 1915, it mounted the largest
exhibition of human skeletons ever presented to the public. The
study of human remains yielded discoveries that increasingly
discredited racial theory; as a consequence, interest in human
origins and evolution-ignited by ideas emerging in the budding
field of anthropology-displaced race as the main motive for
building bone rooms. Today, debates about the ethics of these
collections continue, but the terms of engagement were largely set
by the surge of collecting that was already waning by World War II.
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