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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.
Phrenology --- History --- Brain --- Characters and characteristics --- Craniology --- Head --- Psychology --- Mind and body --- Pathognomy --- Physiognomy --- Localization of functions
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Alternative medical systems --- History of medicine --- Internal medicine --- Homeopathy, acupuncture, phytotherapy. --- Egyptian. --- Psychiatry, psychology.
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