Bone Rooms - From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums

In the bone rooms of the Smithsonian Institution and other museums in the late nineteenth century, a scientific revolution was unfolding, as collectors engaged in a global competition to recover the best human skeletons, mummies, fossils. Study of these remains led to the discrediting of racial theory and the search for human origins and evolution.

Info autore

Samuel J. Redman is the author of Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums, named a Nature Top 20 Book and a Smithsonian Top History Book. A specialist in American cultural and museum history, he is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and has worked at the Science Museum of Minnesota and the Field Museum in Chicago.

Riassunto

In the bone rooms of the Smithsonian Institution and other museums in the late nineteenth century, a scientific revolution was unfolding, as collectors engaged in a global competition to recover the best human skeletons, mummies, fossils. Study of these remains led to the discrediting of racial theory and the search for human origins and evolution.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Samuel J Redman, Samuel J. Redman
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9780674278677
• ISBN: 978-0-674-27867-7
• Pagine: 408
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Etnologia > Etnologia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; SCIENCE / History, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Peoples, History of Science, Relating to indigenous peoples