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First edition |
| Description |
343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
In 1920, Henry Fairfield Osborn, director of New York's American Museum of Natural History, traveled to Hawaii on an anthropological research trip. While there, he took a surfing lesson. His teacher was Duke Kahanamoku, a famous surf-rider and budding movie star. For Osborn, a fervent eugenicist, Kahanamoku was a maddening paradox: physically "perfect," yet belonging to an "imperfect" race. Osborn dispatched young scientist Louis Sullivan to Honolulu to measure, photograph, and cast in plaster Kahanamoku and other Hawaiian people. The study touched off a series of events that forever changed how we think about race, culture, science, and the essence of humanity. |
| Subject |
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935.
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Kahanamoku, Duke, 1890-1968.
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American Museum of Natural History -- History.
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Hawaiians -- Anthropometry.
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Physical anthropology -- United States -- History.
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Racism in anthropology -- United States -- History.
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Eugenics -- United States -- History.
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Hawaii -- Anthropometry.
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| Added Title |
How a surfing legend and a scientific obsession redefined race and culture |
| ISBN |
9780063279971 (paperback) |
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0063279975 (paperback) |
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