Author

Publication

2010 - University Of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

67,500 words, Guess

Page Count

270 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Better World Books9780226233482
  • Better World BooksW8-BTH-397
  • Open LibraryOL23944981M

Classifications

  • DDC599.9/48
  • LCCGN90 .F33 2010
  • LCCGN90.F33 2010

Description

When Philadelphian 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 Mortona's skull wound up in a collector's cabinet, for Morton himself had collected hundreds over the course of a long career.

Subjects

Topics

SkullHistoryCraniologyAnthropologyAnthropometrySocial aspectsAnatomy & histology

Other Editions

  • The skull collectors: race, science, and America's unburied deadUniversity Of Chicago Press2010-01-01

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