Bone rooms: from scientific racism to human prehistory in museums
Auteur :
Redman, Samuel J.
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674660410
Date de publication :
14 mars 2016
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.