Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia

Chapter 1 Introduction: ‘To What Strange Uses’

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

Chapter 3 Skeletal Collecting Before Darwin

Chapter 4 Indigenous Remains in British Anatomical and Ethnographic Discourse, 1810–1850

Chapter 5 British Polygenists and the Indigenous Body, 1820–1880

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

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

Chapter 8 ‘Judicious Collectors’, 1870–1914

Chapter 9 ‘Tales of Blood and Mummies’: The Queensland Museum, 1870–1914

Chapter 10 Murdered for Science? Anthropological Collecting and Colonial Violence in Late Nineteenth Century Australia

Chapter 11 Indigenous Australians’ Defence of the Ancestral Dead

Chapter 13 Conclusion

Chapter 14 Erratum to: Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia