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A Smithsonian Book of the Year<br />A Nature Book of the Year<br /><br />“Provides much-needed foundation of the relationship between museums and Native Americans.”<br />―Smithsonian<br /><br />In 1864 a US Army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota and sent the skeleton to a museum in Washington that was collecting human remains for research. In the “bone rooms” of the Smithsonian, a scientific revolution was unfolding that would change our understanding of the human body, race, and prehistory.<br /><br />Seeking evidence to support new theories of racial classification, collectors embarked on a global competition to recover the best specimens of skeletons, mummies, and fossils. As the study of these discoveries discredited racial theory, new ideas emerging in the budding field of anthropology displaced race as the main motive for building bone rooms. Today, as a new generation seeks to learn about the indigenous past, momentum is building to return objects of spiritual significance to native peoples.<br /><br />“A beautifully written, meticulously documented analysis of [this] little-known history.”<br />―Brian Fagan, Current World Archeology<br /><br />“How did our museums become great storehouses of human remains? Bone Rooms chases answers…through shifting ideas about race, anatomy, anthropology, and archaeology and helps explain recent ethical standards for the collection and display of human dead.”<br />―Ann Fabian, author of The Skull Collectors<br /><br />“Details the nascent views of racial science that evolved in U.S. natural history, anthropological, and medical museums…Redman effectively portrays the remarkable personalities behind [these debates]…pitting the prickly Aleš Hrdlička at the Smithsonian…against ally-turned-rival Franz Boas at the American Museum of Natural History.”<br />―David Hurst Thomas, Nature
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Samuel J. Redman is the author of Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums, named a Nature Top 20 Book and a Smithsonian Top History Book. A specialist in American cultural and museum history, he is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and has worked at the Science Museum of Minnesota and the Field Museum in Chicago.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A Smithsonian Book of the YearA Nature Book of the Year"Provides much-needed foundation of the relationship between museums and Native Americans."-Smithsonian"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"Details the nascent views of racial science that evolved in U.S. natural history, anthropological, and medical museums Redman effectively portrays the remarkable personalities behind [these debates] pitting the prickly Ale Hrdlicka at the Smithsonian against ally-turned-rival Franz Boas at the American Museum of Natural History."-David Hurst Thomas, Nature"In exquisite detail Bone Rooms narrates the rise and fall of racial science in America This complicated and engrossing story is filled with unexpected twists and significant implications for the history of anthropology and intellectual history of race in the United States, and American intellectual history more generally."-Matthew Dennis, author of Seneca Possessed"A beautifully written, meticulously documented analysis of [this] little-known history."-Brian Fagan, Current World ArcheologyIn 1864 a U.S. army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota and sent the skeleton to a museum in Washington that was collecting human remains for research. In the "bone rooms" of the Smithsonian, a scientific revolution was unfolding that would change our understanding of the human body, race, and prehistory.Seeking evidence to support new theories of racial classification, collectors embarked on a global competition to recover the best specimens of skeletons, mummies, and fossils. As the study of these discoveries increasingly discredited racial theory, new 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 have taken on a new urgency as a new generation seeks to learn about the indigenous past and to return objects of spiritual significance to native peoples. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780674278677