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.
正当我研究这些颅骨藏品时， 我突然意识到一件讽刺的事， 人们到这儿来是想感受 他们可能在脑中构想过的 血腥、残忍的原始文明， 却从未真正理解他们眼前的展品， 而一直以来我们博物馆里那些 遍及欧美大陆的数以万计的头骨藏品—— 从某种程度上说， 成为了推进思想启蒙运动的科学基础。