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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Main Author: Fabian, Ann
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, ©2010.
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