Science And Power In The Nineteenth Century Tasman World

Author : Alexandra Roginski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316519449
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World written by Alexandra Roginski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling history of popular phrenology in the transforming settler-colonial landscapes of the nineteenth-century Tasman World.

Author : Alexandra Roginski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009021095
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World written by Alexandra Roginski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contentious science of phrenology once promised insight into character and intellect through external 'reading' of the head. In the transforming settler-colonial landscapes of nineteenth-century Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, popular phrenologists – figures who often hailed from the margins – performed their science of touch and cranial jargon everywhere from mechanics' institutions to public houses. In this compelling work, Alexandra Roginski recounts a history of this everyday practice, exploring how it featured in the fates of people living in, and moving through, the Tasman World. Innovatively drawing on historical newspapers and a network of archives, she traces the careers of a diverse range of popular phrenologists and those they encountered. By analysing the actions at play in scientific episodes through ethnographic, social and cultural history, Roginski considers how this now-discredited science could, in its own day, yield fleeting power and advantage, even against a backdrop of large-scale dispossession and social brittleness.

Author : Eugenia Pacitti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350373745
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Body Collected in Australia written by Eugenia Pacitti and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering insight into nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical school dissecting rooms and anatomy museums, this book explores how collected human remains have shaped Western biomedical knowledge and attitudes towards the body. To explore the role Australia played in the narrative of Western medical development, Pacitti focuses on how and why Australian anatomists and medical students obtained human body parts. As medical knowledge circulated between Australia and Britain, the colony's physicians conformed to established specimen collecting practices and diverged from them to form a distinct medical identity. Interrogating how these literal and figurative bones of contention have left an indelible mark on the nation's medical profession, collecting institutions, and communities, Pacitti sheds new light on our understanding of Western medical networks and reveals the opportunities and challenges historic specimen collections pose in the present day. The Body Collected in Australia is a cultural history of collectors and collections that deepens our understanding of the ways the living have used the dead to comprehend the intricacies of the human body in illness and good health.

Author : Cressida Fforde
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000985202
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Repatriation, Science and Identity written by Cressida Fforde and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repatriation, Science, and Identity explores the entanglement of race, history, identity and ethics inherent in the application of scientific techniques to determine the provenance of Indigenous Ancestral Remains in repatriation claims and processes. The book considers how these issues relate to collections of Indigenous Ancestral (bodily) Remains but also their resonance with emerging concerns about the relatively unknown history of scientific interest in Indigenous hair and blood samples. It also explores the more recent practice of sampling for the purposes of DNA analysis and issues concerning the data that has been produced from all of the above types of research. Placing recent interest in applying scientific techniques to repatriation in their historical context, it enables discourses of identity and scientific authority, an assessment of their efficacy and an exploration of ethical and practical challenges and opportunities. In doing so, this book reveals new histories about scientific interest in Indigenous biology and the collections that resulted, as well as providing reflection for all repatriation practitioners considering scientific investigation when faced with the challenges inherent in the repatriation of unprovenanced or poorly provenanced Ancestral Remains. Providing the reader with a means to approach the value, or otherwise, of the scientific information they may encounter, Repatriation, Science, and Identity is an invaluable resource for researchers and professionals working with Indigenous Ancestral Remains.

Author : Cameo Dalley
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760466085
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memory in Place written by Cameo Dalley and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory in Place brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and practitioners grappling with the continued potency of memories and experiences of colonialism. While many of these conversations have taken place on a national stage, this collection returns to the rich intimacy of the local. From Queensland’s sweeping Gulf Country, along the shelly beaches of south Sydney, Melbourne’s city gardens and the rugged hills of South Australia, through Central Australia’s dusty heart and up to the majestic Kimberley, the collection charts how interactions between Indigenous people, settlers and their descendants are both remembered and forgotten in social, political, and cultural spaces. It offers uniquely diverse perspectives from a range of disciplines including history, anthropology, memory studies, archaeology, and linguistics from both established and emerging scholars; from Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors; and from academics as well as museum and cultural heritage practitioners. The collection locates some of the nation’s most pressing political issues with attention to the local, and the ethics of commemoration and relationships needed at this scale. It will be of interest to those who see the past as intimately connected to the future.

Author : David N. Livingstone
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226487261
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science written by David N. Livingstone and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, David Livingstone and Charles Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning authority, and identity.

Author : Nathan Reingold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science in Nineteenth-century America written by Nathan Reingold and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aileen Fyfe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022615002X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science in the Marketplace written by Aileen Fyfe and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-09-10 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries with increased social status and authority. But it was also a time when ordinary people from across the social spectrum were given the opportunity to participate in science, for education, entertainment, or both. In Victorian Britain science could be encountered in myriad forms and in countless locations: in panoramic shows, exhibitions, and galleries; in city museums and country houses; in popular lectures; and even in domestic conversations that revolved around the latest books and periodicals. Science in the Marketplace reveals this other side of Victorian scientific life by placing the sciences in the wider cultural marketplace, ultimately showing that the creation of new sites and audiences was just as crucial to the growing public interest in science as were the scientists themselves. By focusing attention on the scientific audience, as opposed to the scientific community or self-styled popularizers, Science in the Marketplace ably links larger societal changes—in literacy, in industrial technologies, and in leisure—to the evolution of “popular science.”

Author : John David North
Publisher : Pergamon
ISBN 13 : 9780080132372
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mid-nineteenth-century Scientists written by John David North and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1969 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : CARDWELL
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138740303
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECH written by CARDWELL and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: