The archaeology of race : the eugenic ideas of Flinders Petrie and Francis Galton / Debbie Challis.
- Challis, Debbie.
- Date:
- 2013
- Books
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Publication/Creation
London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
Physical description
xiv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Races and men : 'all is race' -- Galton and genius -- Fitting aesthetics -- Photographing races from antiquity -- Greek art, Greek faces? -- Peopling the Old Testament -- Akhenaten's bloodline -- The new ancient race -- Flinders Petrie and Edwardian politics -- Heads -- Afterword / by Kate Sheppard -- Appendix A: Memphis heads / compiled with Alice Williams.
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Location Status History of MedicineJL /CHAOpen shelves
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- 9781780934204
- 1780934203