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The Resource Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia, by Paul Turnbull, (electronic resource)

Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia, by Paul Turnbull, (electronic resource)

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This book draws on over twenty years’ investigation of scientific archives in Europe, Australia, and other former British settler colonies. It explains how and why skulls and other bodily structures of Indigenous Australians became the focus of scientific curiosity about the nature and origins of human diversity from the early years of colonisation in the late eighteenth century to Australia achieving nationhood at the turn of the twentieth century. The last thirty years have seen the world's indigenous peoples seek the return of their ancestors' bodily remains from museums and medical schools throughout the western world. Turnbull reveals how the remains of the continent's first inhabitants were collected during the long nineteenth century by the plundering of their traditional burial places. He also explores the question of whether museums also acquired the bones of men and women who were killed in Australian frontier regions by military, armed police and settlers. .--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (XI, 428 pages)
Contents
  • 1: Introduction: ‘To What Strange Uses’
  • 2: European Anatomists and Indigenous Australian Bodily Remains, c. 1788–1820
  • 3: Skeletal Collecting before Darwin
  • 4: Indigenous Remains in British Anatomical and Ethnographic Discourse, 1810–1850
  • 5: The Indigenous Body and British Polygenists, 1820–1880
  • 6: ‘Rare Work for the Professors’: Phrenologists and the Australian Skull, c. 1815–1860
  • 7: Colonial Museums and the Indigenous Dead, c. 1830–1874
  • 8: ‘Judicious Collectors’, 1870–1914
  • 9: ‘Tales of Blood and Mummies’: The Queensland Museum, 1870–1914
  • 10: Anthropological Collecting and Colonial Violence in Late Nineteenth Century Australia
  • 11. Indigenous Australians’ Defence of the Ancestral Dead
  • 12: Repatriation and Its Critics
  • 13: Conclusion.
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9783319518749
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https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51874-9
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Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia
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Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia
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by Paul Turnbull
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Language
eng
Summary
This book draws on over twenty years’ investigation of scientific archives in Europe, Australia, and other former British settler colonies. It explains how and why skulls and other bodily structures of Indigenous Australians became the focus of scientific curiosity about the nature and origins of human diversity from the early years of colonisation in the late eighteenth century to Australia achieving nationhood at the turn of the twentieth century. The last thirty years have seen the world's indigenous peoples seek the return of their ancestors' bodily remains from museums and medical schools throughout the western world. Turnbull reveals how the remains of the continent's first inhabitants were collected during the long nineteenth century by the plundering of their traditional burial places. He also explores the question of whether museums also acquired the bones of men and women who were killed in Australian frontier regions by military, armed police and settlers. .--
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  • Palgrave Studies in Pacific History
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  • History
  • Islands of the Pacific
  • World history
  • Imperialism
  • Civilization
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Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia, by Paul Turnbull, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51874-9
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Contents
1: Introduction: ‘To What Strange Uses’ -- 2: European Anatomists and Indigenous Australian Bodily Remains, c. 1788–1820 -- 3: Skeletal Collecting before Darwin -- 4: Indigenous Remains in British Anatomical and Ethnographic Discourse, 1810–1850 -- 5: The Indigenous Body and British Polygenists, 1820–1880 -- 6: ‘Rare Work for the Professors’: Phrenologists and the Australian Skull, c. 1815–1860 -- 7: Colonial Museums and the Indigenous Dead, c. 1830–1874 -- 8: ‘Judicious Collectors’, 1870–1914 -- 9: ‘Tales of Blood and Mummies’: The Queensland Museum, 1870–1914 -- 10: Anthropological Collecting and Colonial Violence in Late Nineteenth Century Australia -- 11. Indigenous Australians’ Defence of the Ancestral Dead -- 12: Repatriation and Its Critics -- 13: Conclusion.
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978-3-319-51874-9
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1 online resource (XI, 428 pages)
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  • electronic
Governing access note
Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
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9783319518749
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Other control number
10.1007/978-3-319-51874-9
Other physical details
6 illustrations
Quality assurance targets
absent
Reformatting quality
access
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1013823002
Label
Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia, by Paul Turnbull, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51874-9
Publication
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mixed
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online resource
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Contents
1: Introduction: ‘To What Strange Uses’ -- 2: European Anatomists and Indigenous Australian Bodily Remains, c. 1788–1820 -- 3: Skeletal Collecting before Darwin -- 4: Indigenous Remains in British Anatomical and Ethnographic Discourse, 1810–1850 -- 5: The Indigenous Body and British Polygenists, 1820–1880 -- 6: ‘Rare Work for the Professors’: Phrenologists and the Australian Skull, c. 1815–1860 -- 7: Colonial Museums and the Indigenous Dead, c. 1830–1874 -- 8: ‘Judicious Collectors’, 1870–1914 -- 9: ‘Tales of Blood and Mummies’: The Queensland Museum, 1870–1914 -- 10: Anthropological Collecting and Colonial Violence in Late Nineteenth Century Australia -- 11. Indigenous Australians’ Defence of the Ancestral Dead -- 12: Repatriation and Its Critics -- 13: Conclusion.
Control code
978-3-319-51874-9
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (XI, 428 pages)
File format
multiple file formats
Form of item
  • online
  • electronic
Governing access note
Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
Isbn
9783319518749
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uncompressed
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other control number
10.1007/978-3-319-51874-9
Other physical details
6 illustrations
Quality assurance targets
absent
Reformatting quality
access
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1013823002

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