Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia

1. Introduction: ‘To What Strange Uses’
Paul Turnbull

2. European Anatomists and Indigenous Australian Bodily Remains, c. 1788–1820
Paul Turnbull

3. Skeletal Collecting Before Darwin
Paul Turnbull

4. Indigenous Remains in British Anatomical and Ethnographic Discourse, 1810–1850
Paul Turnbull

5. British Polygenists and the Indigenous Body, 1820–1880
Paul Turnbull

6. ‘Rare Work for the Professors’: Phrenologists and the Australian Skull, c. 1815–1860
Paul Turnbull

7. Colonial Museums and the Indigenous Dead, c. 1830–1874
Paul Turnbull

8. ‘Judicious Collectors’, 1870–1914
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9. ‘Tales of Blood and Mummies’: The Queensland Museum, 1870–1914
Paul Turnbull

10. Murdered for Science? Anthropological Collecting and Colonial Violence in Late Nineteenth Century Australia
Paul Turnbull

11. Indigenous Australians’ Defence of the Ancestral Dead
Paul Turnbull

12. Repatriation and Its Critics
Paul Turnbull

13. Conclusion
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14. Erratum to: Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia
Paul Turnbull

Keywords: History, Australasian History, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Science, Imperialism and Colonialism, Cultural History