I was working on the cranial collections, and it just struck me as ironic that here were people coming to see this gory, primitive, savage culture that they were almost fantasizing about and creating without really understanding what they were seeing, and all the while these vast -- I mean hundreds of thousands of skulls in our museums, all across Europe and the States -- were kind of upholding this Enlightenment pursuit of scientific rationality.
Eu estava a trabalhar nas coleções de crânios e achei que era irónico as pessoas irem ver aquela cultura sangrenta, primitiva e selvagem, que elas fantasiavam e criavam sem perceberem realmente o que estavam a ver. Toda aquela coleção enorme — eram centenas de milhares de crânios nos nossos museus por toda a Europa e nos EUA — era uma espécie da busca iluminista da racionalidade científica.