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The Archaeology of Race: The Eugenic Ideas of Francis Galton and Flinders Petrie
Author(s): Debbie Challis (Author)
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date: 14 Mar. 2013
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 1780934203
- ISBN-13: 9781780934204
Book Description
Archaeology of Race draws on archives and objects from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and the Galton collection at UCL. These collections are used to explore anti-Semitism, skull collecting, New Race theory and physiognomy. These collections give insight into the relationship between Galton and Petrie and place their ideas in historical context.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Reveals an unexpected link between two major figures in early anthropology, and one that adds weight to my favourite Darwin quote, that: ‘Ignorance more frequently breeds confidence than does knowledge’.” –Steve Jones, The Lancet
“The Archaeology of Race: the Eugenic Ideas of Francis Galton and Flinders Petrie tells the tale and pays particular attention to the role of attractiveness in defining ancestry. The book has a detailed, indeed exhaustive, analysis of some of the material in UCL’s collections, and itself has rather a whiff of the museum (with “multiple visualities at play”). Even so, The Archaeology of Race reveals an unexpected link between two major figures in early anthropology, and one that adds weight to my favourite Darwin quote, that: “Ignorance more frequently breeds confidence than does knowledge”.” –Steve Jones, The Lancet
