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Samuel J. Redman, "Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums" (Harvard UP, 2022)

New Books in Anthropology

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What Are the Contradictions in Your Answer?

In many contexts, not all, but in many contexts, they were just, it was essentially looting, right, or desecrating. The museum model really becomes predominant in terms of thinking about how to document and preserve these remains. And that's applied to human remains using a lot of the ideas at the time. But it's benefiting from the growth of empire and ideas about nationalism as well as scientifically racist ideasThat is based on this sort of positivist mindset that there are things out there that can be proven as facts and we can use the scientific method to sort of do that.

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