Naming and framing ‘Nature’ inPhotographie Zoologique

Of monsters and fossils: The making of racial difference in Malvina Hoffman'shall of the races of mankind

“…When she died of a cold in Paris, she became an object of scientific study, and then a body divided into sections, whose specimens were then catalogued and displayed in the museum (See Gilman 1985: Ch. 2;Rosen 1997). Hoffman was revolted; no matter that this "specimen" was thought to represent the closest physical "proof" of the links between humans and orangutans, to document precisely with physical "evidence" the lower orders of primitive man.…”