The Skull Collectors

The Skull Collectors
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9780226760575
ISBN-13 : 022676057X
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Book Synopsis The Skull Collectors by : Ann Fabian

Download or read book The Skull Collectors written by Ann Fabian and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A haunting voyage through the peculiar--and peculiarly American--world of human skull collecting. Ann Fabian's remarkable and moving study illuminates as few other works have the powerful hold that the dead and their remains continue to have upon the living". Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History.


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