Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums by Samuel J. Redman

Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums

Samuel J. Redman

408 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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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 ...

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