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 | #528341 in Books |  2010-10-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.80 x6.00l,1.15 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Sometimes great -- but frustrating|By Magnus Eisengrim|I read this book to learn more about the history of scientific racism, phrenology, and pseudoscience in America. Fabian provides some fascinating glimpses of all of these. At its best, her book places these subjects in a broader context through passages that are filled with insight, and here the writing soars. For example,

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 battle...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead   |  Ann Fabian. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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