Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World: Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand

2024/12/18 by Jeremy Martens · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Australian Indigenous Culture and History

paper · doi:10.1080/1031461x.2025.2432688

openalex publication_date 2024/12/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Alexandra Roginski introduces her study of popular phrenology in nineteenth-century Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand with a description of an Irish phrenologist’s travels up and down eastern Aust...

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