Science and race in South Africa: lessons from ‘old bones in boxes’
Science and race in South Africa: lessons from ‘old bones in boxes’: Anatomist and anthropologist Matthew Drennan in his anthropology laboratory at the University of Cape Town in 1931. Cape Argus, 27 August 1931 The discipline of physical anthropology has a dark, often fraught past. It was misused to justify slavery and even genocide. In …
