Stories
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Native Americans and the dehumanising force of the photograph
In the second part of Native Americans through the 19th-century lens, we delve deeper into the ambivalent messages within the images.
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Genius spirits and the mystery of creative inspiration
Once upon a time, we all had a genius.
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Colonialism and the origins of skin bleaching
The widespread practice of skin bleaching was heavily influenced by the Western colonisation and slavery of African and South Asian countries. Ngunan Adamu explores this toxic history.
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Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.
Catalogue
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Pendant or receptacle, Ancient American
- Books
Ancient America, in notes on American archaeology / by John Denison Baldwin.
Baldwin, John D. (John Denison), 1809-1883.Date: 1872- Books
Ancient Egyptian science : a source book / by Marshall Clagett.
Clagett, Marshall, 1916-2005.Date: 1989-- Books
Ancient Egyptian science : a source book. Vol. 3, Ancient Egyptian mathematics / Marshall Clagett
Clagett, Marshall.Date: 1999- Books
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Ancient life in the American Southwest : with an introduction on the general history of the American race / by Edgar L. Hewett.
Hewett, Edgar L. (Edgar Lee), 1865-1946.Date: [1930], ©1930