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Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums

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Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums - Redman, Samuel J
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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.

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Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums 2022, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674278677

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Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums 2016, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674660410

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