现货Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums[9780674660410]

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作者Redman, Samuel J

出版社Harvard University Press

ISBN9780674660410

出版时间2016-03

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页数288页

正文语种英语

上书时间2023-04-19

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商品描述: A Smithsonian Top History Book of the YearA Nature Book of the Year "How did our museums become great storehouses of human remains? What have we learned from the skulls and bones of unburied dead? Bone Rooms chases answers to these questions through shifting ideas about race, anatomy, anthropology, and archaeology and helps explain recent ethical standards for the collection and display of human dead."--Ann Fabian, author of The Skull Collectors In 1864 a US Army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota. Carefully recording his observations, he sent the skeleton to a museum in Washington, DC, that was collecting human remains for research. 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

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