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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Redman, Samuel J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 25 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Prologue --; 1. Collecting Bodies for Science --; 2. Salvaging Race and Remains --; 3. The Medical Body on Display --; 4. The Story of Man through the Ages --; 5. Scientific Racism and Museum Remains --; 6. Skeletons and Human Prehistory --; Epilogue --; Notes. Acknowledgments. Index --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674969711; 9783110638585
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674969711
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Samuel J. Redman.

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.