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Bone Rooms

From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums

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Publication Date: 03/14/2016

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408 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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  • Prologue
  • 1. Collecting Bodies for Science
  • 2. Salvaging Race and Remains
  • 3. The Medical Body on Display
  • 4. The Story of Man through the Ages
  • 5. Scientific Racism and Museum Remains
  • 6. Skeletons and Human Prehistory
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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