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Author : Samuel George Morton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Broadsides
ISBN : BSB:BSB10255358
Author : Samuel George Morton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10211391
Author : Samuel George Morton,George Combe
Publisher : Philadelphia : J. Dobson ; London : Simpkin, Marshall
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : America
ISBN : CHI:17009815
Morton had a collection of about 1,000 skulls and was the most eminent craniologist in the United States in his time period.
Author : Ann Fabian
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226233499
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 battlefields and burial grounds across America and around the world. With The Skull Collectors, eminent historian Ann Fabian resurrects that popular and scientific movement, telling the strange—and at times gruesome—story of Morton, his contemporaries, and their search for a scientific foundation for racial difference. From cranial measurements and museum shelves to heads on stakes, bloody battlefields, and the “rascally pleasure” of grave robbing, Fabian paints a lively picture of scientific inquiry in service of an agenda of racial superiority, and of a society coming to grips with both the deadly implications of manifest destiny and the mass slaughter of the Civil War. Even as she vividly recreates the past, Fabian also deftly traces the continuing implications of this history, from lingering traces of scientific racism to debates over the return of the remains of Native Americans that are held by museums to this day. Full of anecdotes, oddities, and insights, The Skull Collectors takes readers on a darkly fascinating trip down a little-visited but surprisingly important byway of American history.
Author : Samuel George Morton
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664604514
This book is about observations on Egyptian ethnography, derived from anatomy, history and the monuments. The author Morton, who is also an American physician, believed in polygenism and that the skull capacity influenced the intellectual ability. In this work he focuses on the measurements and particularities of crania found in Egyptian tombs and compare them to other nationalities.
Author : Samuel George Morton
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1015506046
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Samuel George Morton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : OCLC:42991786
Author : Samuel George Morton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Craniology
ISBN : OCLC:974709682
Author : George Combe,Samuel George Morton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Craniology
ISBN : OCLC:1027008734
Author : Safiya Sinclair
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780803295360
Colliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair's Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history, race relations in America, womanhood, otherness, and exile. She evokes a home no longer accessible and a body at times uninhabitable, often mirrored by a hybrid Eve/Caliban figure. Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery, these full-blooded poems are elegant, mythic, and intricately woven. Here the female body is a dark landscape; the female body is cannibal. Sinclair shocks and delights her readers with her willingness to disorient and provoke, creating a multitextured collage of beautiful and explosive poems.
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393340402
The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. And yet the idea of innate limits—of biology as destiny—dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined by Stephen Jay Gould. In this edition Dr. Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why he wrote the book and tracing the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness right through The Bell Curve. Further, he has added five essays on questions of The Bell Curve in particular and on race, racism, and biological determinism in general. These additions strengthen the book's claim to be, as Leo J. Kamin of Princeton University has said, "a major contribution toward deflating pseudo-biological 'explanations' of our present social woes."
Author : Samuel George Morton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Craniology
ISBN : OCLC:4865899
Author : Elizabeth Weiss,James W. Springer
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683401858
Engaging a longstanding controversy important to archaeologists and indigenous communities, Repatriation and Erasing the Past takes a critical look at laws that mandate the return of human remains from museums and laboratories to ancestral burial grounds. Anthropologist Elizabeth Weiss and attorney James Springer offer scientific and legal perspectives on the way repatriation laws impact research. Weiss discusses how anthropologists draw conclusions about past peoples through their study of skeletons and mummies and argues that continued curation of human remains is important. Springer reviews American Indian law and how it helped to shape laws such as NAGPRA (the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act). He provides detailed analyses of cases including the Kennewick Man and the Havasupai genetics lawsuits. Together, Weiss and Springer critique repatriation laws and support the view that anthropologists should prioritize scientific research over other perspectives.
Author : James Aitken Meigs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Craniology
ISBN : UOM:39015019779050
Author : James Aitken Meigs,Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Craniology
ISBN : PRNC:32101068189644