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The skull collectors :

(Number (ISBN

0226233499

(Number (ISBN

1282894692

(Number (ISBN

9780226233499

(Number (ISBN

9781282894693

Erroneous ISBN

0226233480

Erroneous ISBN

9780226233482

Number

b797731

Title Proper

The skull collectors :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

race, science, and America's unburied dead /

First Statement of Responsibility

Ann Fabian.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Chicago :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of Chicago Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2010.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xi, 270 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-260) and index.

Text of Note

"The promise of a fine skull" -- A native among the headhunters -- Crania Americana -- "News from the Feegees" -- The unburied dead.

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Text of Note

"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 himself had collected hundreds of skulls over the course of a long career. Friends, diplomats, doctors, soldiers, and fellow naturalists sent him skulls they gathered from battlefields and burial grounds across America and around the world. With the Skull Collectors, eminent historian Ann Fabian resurrects that popular and scientific movement, telling the strange--and at times gruesome--story of Morton, his contemporaries, and their search for a scientific foundation for racial difference. From cranial measurements and museum shelves to heads on stakes, bloody battlefields, and the 'rascally pleasure' of grave robbing, Fabian paints a lively picture of scientific inquiry in service of an agenda of racial superiority, and of a society coming to grips with both the deadly implications of manifest destiny and the mass slaughter of the Civil War. Even as she vividly recreates the past, Fabian also deftly traces the continuing implications of this history, from lingering traces of scientific racism to debates over the return of the remains of Native Americans that are held by museums to this day."--Provided by publisher.

Title

Skull collectors.

International Standard Book Number

9780226233482

Morton, Samuel George,1799-1851., Crania Americana.

Anthropometry-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Craniology-- Social aspects-- United States-- 19th century.

Skull-- Catalogs and collections-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Anthropometry.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Physical.

United States.

7

SOC-- 002020

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Edition

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Book number

Fabian, Ann.

Date of Transaction

20201207102400.0

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