The skull collectors : race, science, and America's unburied dead /

"When Philadelphia naturalist Samuel George Morton died in 1851, no one cut off his head, boiled away its flesh, and added his grinning skull to a collection of crania. It would have been strange, but perhaps fitting, had Morton's skull wound up in a collector's cabinet, for Morton hi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fabian, Ann
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, ©2010.
Temas:
Morton, Samuel George, > 1799-1851. > Crania Americana.
1800-1899
Craniology > Social aspects > United States > 19th century.
Anthropometry > United States > History > 19th century.
Skull > Catalogs and collections > United States > History > 19th century.
Craniologie > Aspect social > États-Unis > 19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Physical.
Anthropometry
United States
Electronic book.
History
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