كتاب
Bone rooms: from scientific racism to human prehistory in museums
| العنوان: | Bone rooms: from scientific racism to human prehistory in museums From scientific racism to human prehistory in museums |
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| المؤلفون: | Redman, Samuel J., author. |
| سنة النشر: | 2016 |
| وصف مادي: | 373 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Human remains (Archaeology) -- United States., Archaeological museums and collections -- United States -- History -- 19th century., Archaeological museums and collections -- United States -- History -- 20th century., Archaeology -- United States -- History., Racism in anthropology -- United States -- History., Archaeological museums and collections., Archaeology., Human remains (Archaeology), Racism in anthropology., Body Remains., Museums -- history., Anthropology -- methods., Population Groups -- classification., History, 19th Century., History, 20th Century., History. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | United States. |
| Time: | 1800 - 1999 |
| الوصف: | "In 1864 a U.S. 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 public display. Seeking evidence to support new theories of human evolution and racial classification, collectors embarked on a global competition to recover the best specimens of skeletons, mummies, and fossils. The Smithsonian Institution built the largest collection of human remains in the United States, edging out stiff competition from natural history and medical museums springing up in cities and on university campuses across America. 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 evolution—ignited by ideas emerging in the budding field of anthropology—displaced race as the main motive for building bone rooms. 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."-- "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."-- |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Prologue -- 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 -- Epilogue. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn921310692 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-674-66041-0 0-674-66041-2 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-353) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.014539201.5 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780674660410 0674660412 |
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