Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World : Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand Hardback
by Alexandra (Deakin University, Victoria) Roginski
Part of the Science in History series
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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.
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/06/2023
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- ISBN:9781316519448
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:300 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/06/2023
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- ISBN:9781316519448