Science, Museums and Collecting the Indige...

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Paul Turnbull
is Professor of History and Digital Humanities at the University of Tasmania, Australia, and Honorary Professor in History at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author of numerous essays on Western biomedical interest in the indigenous peoples of Oceania and is co-editor of
The Dead and Their Possessions: Repatriation in Principle, Policy and Practice
(2004) and
The Long Journey Home: the Meanings and Values of Repatriation
(2010).

Zusammenfassung

The first in-depth history of scientific curiosity about the Australian Indigenous body

Expands the understanding of the relations between exploration and collecting in spheres of European colonial ambition and metropolitan-based medico-scientific activities

Reveals the ethical tensions and disruptive dangers of the scientific interest in Aboriginal remains and their treatment

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geisteswissenschaften , Geschichte , Kunst , Musik
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Palgrave Studies in Pacific History
Inhalt:	xiii 428 S. 6 s/w Illustr. 428 p. 6 illus.
ISBN-13:	9783319847665
ISBN-10:	331984766X
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Turnbull, Paul
Auflage:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG Palgrave Studies in Pacific History
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Books on Demand GmbH, In de Tarpen 42, D-22848 Norderstedt, info@bod.de
Maße:	210 x 148 x 24 mm
Von/Mit:	Paul Turnbull
Erscheinungsdatum:	04.06.2019
Gewicht:	0,57 kg

Artikel-ID: 115103346