The Resource Bone rooms : from scientific racism to human prehistory in museums, Samuel J. Redman
Bone rooms : from scientific racism to human prehistory in museums, Samuel J. Redman
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The item Bone rooms : from scientific racism to human prehistory in museums, Samuel J. Redman represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in College of Physicians of Philadelphia.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item Bone rooms : from scientific racism to human prehistory in museums, Samuel J. Redman represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "This book explores human remains as objects for research and display in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Influenced by early skull collectors such as Samuel George Morton, zealous scientists at museums in the United States established human skeletal collections. Museums such as the Smithsonian Institution, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Field Museum of Natural History established their own collections. Universities soon followed, with bones collected for Penn, Berkeley, and Harvard. American Indian remains collected from the American West arrived at museums at an increasingly fervent pace, and the project swiftly became global in scope. Coinciding with a high-water mark in Euro-American colonialism, collecting bones became a unique and evolving expression of colonialism experienced through archaeological, anthropological, and anatomical study of race and the body via work with human remains collections. In revealing this story, The Great Bone Race surveys shifts away from racial classification theories toward emerging ideas regarding human origins, arguing that the study of human remains contributed significantly to changing ideas about race and human history. These ideas were hotly contested, and competition to collect and exhibit rare human remains from around the world thrust ideas about race and history into the public realm through prominent museum displays visited by millions."--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 373 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
-
- BK
- OCLCxfer
- Contents
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- Collecting bodies for science
- Salvaging race and remains
- The medical body on display
- The story of man through the ages
- Scientific racism and museum remains
- Skeletons and human prehistory
- Isbn
- 9780674660410
- Label
- Bone rooms : from scientific racism to human prehistory in museums
- Title
- Bone rooms
- Title remainder
- from scientific racism to human prehistory in museums
- Statement of responsibility
- Samuel J. Redman
- Subject
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- Archaeological museums and collections -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Archaeological museums and collections -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Archaeology
- Archaeology -- United States -- History
- History
- 1800-1999
- Human remains (Archaeology) -- United States
- Racism in anthropology
- Racism in anthropology -- United States -- History
- United States
- Human remains (Archaeology)
- Archaeological museums and collections
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "This book explores human remains as objects for research and display in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Influenced by early skull collectors such as Samuel George Morton, zealous scientists at museums in the United States established human skeletal collections. Museums such as the Smithsonian Institution, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Field Museum of Natural History established their own collections. Universities soon followed, with bones collected for Penn, Berkeley, and Harvard. American Indian remains collected from the American West arrived at museums at an increasingly fervent pace, and the project swiftly became global in scope. Coinciding with a high-water mark in Euro-American colonialism, collecting bones became a unique and evolving expression of colonialism experienced through archaeological, anthropological, and anatomical study of race and the body via work with human remains collections. In revealing this story, The Great Bone Race surveys shifts away from racial classification theories toward emerging ideas regarding human origins, arguing that the study of human remains contributed significantly to changing ideas about race and human history. These ideas were hotly contested, and competition to collect and exhibit rare human remains from around the world thrust ideas about race and history into the public realm through prominent museum displays visited by millions."--Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- MH/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Redman, Samuel J
- Dewey number
- 930.1074/73
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- CC79.5.H85
- LC item number
- R43 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Human remains (Archaeology)
- Archaeological museums and collections
- Archaeological museums and collections
- Archaeology
- Racism in anthropology
- Archaeological museums and collections
- Archaeology
- Human remains (Archaeology)
- Racism in anthropology
- United States
- Label
- Bone rooms : from scientific racism to human prehistory in museums, Samuel J. Redman
- Note
-
- BK
- OCLCxfer
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-353) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Collecting bodies for science -- Salvaging race and remains -- The medical body on display -- The story of man through the ages -- Scientific racism and museum remains -- Skeletons and human prehistory
- Control code
- 000155004
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 373 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780674660410
- Lccn
- 2015033855
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) 155004
- (OCoLC)921310692
- Label
- Bone rooms : from scientific racism to human prehistory in museums, Samuel J. Redman
- Note
-
- BK
- OCLCxfer
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-353) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Collecting bodies for science -- Salvaging race and remains -- The medical body on display -- The story of man through the ages -- Scientific racism and museum remains -- Skeletons and human prehistory
- Control code
- 000155004
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 373 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780674660410
- Lccn
- 2015033855
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 155004
- (OCoLC)921310692
Subject
- Archaeological museums and collections -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Archaeological museums and collections -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Archaeology
- Archaeology -- United States -- History
- History
- 1800-1999
- Human remains (Archaeology) -- United States
- Racism in anthropology
- Racism in anthropology -- United States -- History
- United States
- Human remains (Archaeology)
- Archaeological museums and collections
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