Alexandra Roginski (Victoria Deakin University)

Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World

Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Science in History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9781316519448
• ISBN-10: 1316519449
• Artikelnr.: 67337869

Autorenporträt

Dr Alexandra Roginski is a historian and writer based on Wurundjeri Country in Melbourne, Australia, and a Visiting Fellow of the State Library of New South Wales and Deakin University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Bumps on the road: phrenological touts and travellers
2. Massaging the town: phrenological ordeals and audiences
3. Tactics on stage: indigenous performers, cultural exchange and negotiated power
4. A godly touch of male power: phrenology, mesmerism and gendered authority
5. Talking heads on a Murray River mission
6. Black phrenologists, black masks
7. Popular science in a changing M¿ori world
8. Gardening a Duropean island: phrenologists, whiteness and reform for nationhood
9. Divinatory science in the city and the bush
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.