Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums

Authors

Boyd Cothran

ISBN

9780674660410

Price

$29.95

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Abstract

The Power of Remains: America’s Bone Rooms Impact on the Making and Unmaking of Scientific Racism

Museums throughout North American and Europe today contain a surprising number of human bones. U.S. museums house an estimated 500,000 Native American remains with another 116,000 sets of bone....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.18.3.07

Recommended Citation

Cothran, Boyd (2016) "Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 18 : Iss. 3 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.18.3.07
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol18/iss3/6