Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums (Redman Samuel J.)(Paperback)

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 "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 "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 Hrdlička at the Smithsonian...against
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