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British anthropological thought in colonial practice: The appropriation of Indigenous Australian bodies, 1860-1880

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posted on 2023-05-22, 15:08 authored by Paul TurnbullPaul Turnbull
Within Australian historiography, the procurement of indigenous Australian ancestral remains by European scientists has generally been explained as resulting from the desire to produce evidence refining the core assumptions of Darwinian theory. I have argued elsewhere (1998, 1999) that the procurement of anatomical specimens through desecration of indigenous burial places in fact began shortly after the establishment of the penal settlement of New South Wales in 1788. It also seems clear that from the early 1880s indigenous burial places were plundered with a view to producing knowledge that would answer various questions about the origins and nature of racial difference that emerged as a consequence of the rapid and widespread assent given Darwinian evolutionary theory (Turnbull 1991).

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Publication title

Foreign bodies: Oceania and the science of race 1750-1940

Editors

Bronwen Douglas and Chris Ballard

Pagination

109-130

ISBN

9781921313998

Publisher

ANU E Press

Place of publication

Canberra, Australia

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9

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