The archaeology of race : the eugenic ideas of Flinders Petrie and Francis Galton / Debbie Challis.

  • Challis, Debbie.
Date:
2013
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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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    History of Medicine
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  • 9781780934204
  • 1780934203