Titlebook: Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia; Paul Turnbull Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The A

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Conclusion,ous peoples and scientists to the point that research involving the study of ancestral remains may be possible, but only if it grounded in an ethics of respect for beliefs, rights and obligations of Australia’s first peoples to the dead.

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,Introduction: ‘To What Strange Uses’,eum’s storerooms, which the Australian Government had requested the state of Bavaria to release to the care of the National Museum of Australia, in the hope that further research might identify the man’s community of origin and enable his reburial in his ancestral country.

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,British Polygenists and the Indigenous Body, 1820–1880,ed to Knox’s admirer, Joseph Barnard Davis (1800–1881). It traces the development of Davis’s interest in racial craniometry, his energetic collecting of racial skulls, his rejection of Darwin’s evolutionism and his use of Australian remains in challenging early Darwinian accounts of humankind’s place in nature.

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,Introduction: ‘To What Strange Uses’, was with Dr. Michaela Appel, the curator of Oceanic ethnology at Munich’s Five Continents Museum. We had gone to see the body, kept in one of the museum’s storerooms, which the Australian Government had requested the state of Bavaria to release to the care of the National Museum of Australia, in th

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,European Anatomists and Indigenous Australian Bodily Remains, c. 1788–1820,an anatomists of the late eighteenth and early years of the nineteenth century. Particular attention is given to how Australian cranial morphology was interpreted by two of the most influential comparative anatomists of the time: John Hunterand Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. As the chapter shows, both

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,Indigenous Remains in British Anatomical and Ethnographic Discourse, 1810–1850, variation in humankind from the second decade of the nineteenth century until around the mid-1850s. Historians of racial science have generally assumed that by the mid-nineteenth century a shift away from environmentalist explanations of human variation occurred. Growing credence was given to the i

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,British Polygenists and the Indigenous Body, 1820–1880,(1791–1862), the Scots anatomist and controversial racial theorist. Knox’s racial determinism made him a trenchant critic of British settler colonialism. He believed that not only were Australian and other indigenous peoples doomed to suffer extermination at the hands of European settlers, but also

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,‘Rare Work for the Professors’: Phrenologists and the Australian Skull, c. 1815–1860,y. Historians of racial thought have assumed that phrenology enjoyed widespread credence in colonial Australia, and was an influential ingredient in the coalescence of racialist perceptions of the continent’s first peoples. Convinced phrenologists, and colonists curious about this unconventional cer

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,Colonial Museums and the Indigenous Dead, c. 1830–1874,n explores the meanings and values that Indigenous Australian remains accrued in the wake of the rapid and widespread assent Darwin’s theory of evolution gained in the 1860s. In Darwinian evolutionary discourse, the morphology of Indigenous Australians was seen as likely to furnish important clues a