Historical Anatomical Collections of Human Remains: Exploring Their Reinterpretation as Representations of Racial Violence

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We synthesize how the tools of molecular anthropology, integrated with analyses of skeletal material, can provide direct insights into the context-specific experiences of racial structural violence in the past. Our work—which is emblematic of how biological anthropologists are increasingly interested in exploring the embodied effects of structural and race-based violence—reveals how anthropology can illuminate past lived experiences that are otherwise invisible or inscrutable. This kind of integrative research is exposing the legacies of structural violence in producing anatomical collections and the embodied effects of structural violence evident within individuals in those collections.

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Title: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Abbreviated Title: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Publisher: SAGE Publications

ISSN (Print): 0002-7162

ISSN (Electronic): 1552-3349

Publication date Created: March 2021

Publication date (Electronic): July 06 2021

Publication date (Print): March 2021

Volume: 694

Issue: 1

Pages: 39-47

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DOI: 10.1177/00027162211008815

SO-VID: bcdb35f8-0766-49ac-a074-4503ea9775ee

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