The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead

by Ann Fabian

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226233480
• ISBN13: 9780226233482
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.9" x 6.4"