Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (866 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674660412 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 408 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Redman is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Samuel J
(Brian Wolly Smithsonian 2016-12-30)Bone Rooms is an accessible piece of public history that can be appreciated by a general audience as well as scholars of the history of science…This book provides a contextualized history of the creation of a particularly unique phenomenon in the Western history of scientific tradition. Alberti British Journal for the History of Science 2016-09-01)Provides much-needed foundation of the relationship between museums and Native Americans. Both the general reader and any scholar working on human remains will enjoy this important book. This is much more than an institutional history. (Ann Fabian, author of The Skull Collectors)Bone Rooms details the nascent views of racial science that evolved in U.S. (Bri
Completely CAPTIVATING! Amazon Customer I am not a scientist – not a scholar of any kind; but, yet I found Dr. Redman’s book completely captivating. His writing style made his subject matter engaging and thought-provoking on a subject – bone rooms - I never thought I would have any interest. So, do I recommend this book for the everyday reader? Absolutely! You have to try it – I th. Kyle N. said Definitely recommend and look forward to any further publications from Redman. A fascinating look at history! This book helps the reader understand why and how people became interested in the collection of human remains. Definitely recommend and look forward to any further publications from Redman!. Amazon Customer said Well Done!. Interesting look into a not-so-distant past. This book illustrates how science and culture shape societies and how that prospective is every changing. Highly recommend for academics and general interest.
In 1864 a U.S. In the “bone rooms” of this museum and others like it, a scientific revolution was unfolding that would change our understanding of the human body, race, and prehistory.In Bone Rooms Samuel Redman unearths the story of how human remains became highly sought-after artifacts for both scientific research and public display. Carefully recording his observations, he sent the skeleton to a museum in Washington, DC, that was collecting human remains for research. Today, debates about the ethics of these collections continue, but the terms of engagement were largely set by the surge of collecting that was already waning by World War II.. When the San Diego Museum of Man opened in 1915, it mounted the largest exhibition of human skeletons ever presented to the public.The study of human remains yielded discoveries that increasingly discredited racial theory; as a consequence, interest in human origins and evolutionignited by ideas emerging in the budding field of anthropologydisplaced race as the main motive for building bone rooms. army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota. The Smithsonian Institution built the largest collection of human remains in the United States, edging out stiff competition from natural history and medical museums