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 trabalhando nas coleções cranianas, e me parecia irônico que as pessoas vinham ver essa cultura sangrenta, primitiva e selvagem que elas quase fantasiavam em criar sem realmente compreender o que estavam vendo. Enquanto isso, esses enormes acervos--  são centenas de milhares de crânios em nossos museus, em toda Europa e EUA -- de certa forma, sustentavam essa busca iluminada por racionalidade científica.