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Author : Samuel George Morton
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Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book Crania Americana written by Samuel George Morton and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel George Morton
Publisher : Philadelphia : J. Dobson ; London : Simpkin, Marshall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)
Download or read book Crania Americana; Or, A Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America written by Samuel George Morton and published by Philadelphia : J. Dobson ; London : Simpkin, Marshall. This book was released on 1839 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morton had a collection of about 1,000 skulls and was the most eminent craniologist in the United States in his time period.
Author : Samuel George Morton
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Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)
Download or read book Crania Americana written by Samuel George Morton and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann Fabian
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226233499
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Skull Collectors written by Ann Fabian and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
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Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)
Download or read book Crania Ægyptiaca written by Samuel George Morton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Safiya Sinclair
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803295367
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cannibal written by Safiya Sinclair and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0393340406
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Mismeasure of Man (Revised and Expanded) written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-06-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015506046
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)
Download or read book Crania Americana written by Samuel George Morton and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : James Poskett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226820645
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book Materials of the Mind written by James Poskett and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-02-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phrenology was the most popular mental science of the Victorian age. From American senators to Indian social reformers, this new mental science found supporters stretching around the globe. Materials of the Mind tells the story of how phrenology changed the world--and how the world changed phrenology. This is a story of skulls from the Arctic, plaster casts from Haiti, books from Bengal, and letters from the Pacific. Drawing on far-flung museum and archival collections, and addressing sources in six different languages, Materials of the Mind is the first substantial account of science in the nineteenth century as part of global history. It shows how the circulation of material culture underpinned the emergence of a new materialist philosophy of the mind, while also demonstrating how a global approach to history could help us reassess issues such as race, technology, and politics today.
Author : Samuel George Morton
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Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Inquiry Into the Distinctive Characteristics of the Aboriginal Race of America written by Samuel George Morton and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
