Science and power in the nineteenth-century Tasman world : popular phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand / Alexandra Roginski.
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Roginski, Alexandra (författare)
- ISBN 9781316519448
- Publicerad: Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2023
- Engelska xvi, 271 pages
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Serie: Science in history
Innehållsförteckning
Sammanfattning
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- Introduction : the show begins -- Bumps on the road : phrenological touts and travellers -- Massaging the town : phrenological ordeals and audiences -- Tactics on stage : indigenous performers, cultural exchange and negotiated exchange and negotiated power -- A godly touch of male power : phrenology, mesmerism and gendered authority -- Talking heads on a Murray River mission -- Black phrenologists, black mask -- Popular science in a changing Māori world -- Gardening a European island : phrenologists, whiteness and reform for nationhood -- Divinatory science in the city and the bush.
- "A compelling history of how popular phrenology featured in the fates of people living in, and moving through, the settler-colonial world of nineteenth-century Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Innovatively using historical newspapers and other archives, Roginski traces the careers of a range of popular phrenologists and those they encountered"--
Ämnesord
- Phrenology -- Australia -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
- Phrenology -- New Zealand -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
- Frenologi -- historia (sao)
- Australien (sao)
- Nya Zeeland (sao)
- 1800-talet (sao)
Klassifikation
- BF868 (LCC)
- 139 (DDC)
- Bld (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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