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Samuel J. Redman

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Bodies of Knowledge

Philadelphia and the dark history of collecting human remains.

by Samuel J. Redman via Perspectives on History on September 15, 2022
Ambushing Geronimo

An introduction to salvage anthropology.

by Samuel J. Redman via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 27, 2021
Rosie the Riveters Discovered a Wartime California Dream

Following wartime opportunities west, seven million “Rosie the Riveters” found more than just jobs when they reached California.

by Samuel J. Redman via The Conversation on November 29, 2017

Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology

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Scaffolding around the statue of President Theodore Roosevelt at the American Museum of Natural History as it is prepared for removal on December 2, 2021 in New York City

A New York Museum's House of Bones

The American Museum of Natural History holds 12,000 bodies — but they don’t want you to know whose.

by Erin L. Thompson via Hyperallergic on October 15, 2023

Maps and photos of the Smithsonian and its anthropologicl collections.

Revealing the Smithsonian’s ‘Racial Brain Collection’

The Smithsonian’s human brains collection was led by Ales Hrdlicka, a museum curator in the 1900s who believed that White people were superior.

by Nicole Dungca, Claire Healy via Washington Post on August 14, 2023

Five globes shaped like human faces, connected by threads.

It’s Time to Rethink the Idea of the “Indigenous”

Many groups who identify as Indigenous don’t claim to be first peoples; many who came first don’t claim to be Indigenous. Can the idea escape its colonial past?

by Manvir Singh via The New Yorker on February 20, 2023

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