"Living Fossils": Anatomies of Race and Reproduction in Modern Egypt.
This article traces the scientific afterlife of the mummy Queen Henhenit from excavation and circulation to examination and display in twentieth-century Egypt. Believed to have the oldest vesicovaginal fistula in medical history, Henhenit's body held large implications for global anthropology and th...
| Publicado en: | American Historical Review Vol. 130; no. 1; pp. 19 - 53 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2025
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