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SUMMARY:Skulls\, science and the spoils of war: frontier violence and the 
 creation of the US Army Medical Museum’s cranial collection\, 1869-1900 
 - Elise Juzda (Faculty of History)
DTSTART:20080128T130000Z
DTEND:20080128T141500Z
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CONTACT:Salim Al-Gailani
DESCRIPTION:In 1868\, the Assistant Surgeon General of the United States A
 rmy issued a\ncircular to all medical officers posted in 'Indian country' 
 ordering them\nto collect as many skulls as possible of the 'aboriginal ra
 ces of North\nAmerica' for the purposes of anthropological research. This 
 marked the\nbeginning of several decades in which the collection of Native
  American\nremains was an official government policy\, and one in which th
 e widespread\nloss of life in the 'Indian Wars' was explicitly exploited f
 or\nanthropological ends. This paper uncovers the circumstances in which t
 he\nspecimens collected amidst the Indian Wars were made into one of the\n
 largest and most celebrated cranial collections in America\, and examines\
 nwhy the American Army Medical Department chose to involve itself so heavi
 ly\nin craniological research\, only to abandon it completely by the end o
 f the\nnineteenth century.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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