Kowal Haunting Biology

Science and Indigeneity in Australia
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2753-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Reihe: Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices

Emma Kowal draws on the history of problematic scientific research on Indigenous Australian bodies and populations to tell larger story of how that study continues to haunt contemporary genomics study about Indigenous biological difference.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kowal, Emma

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note on Terminology xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1. Living with Ghosts 11
2. Blood, Bones, and the Ghosts of the Ancestors 33
3. A Century in the Life of an Aboriginal Hair Sample 67
4. Race and Nation: Aboriginal Whiteness and Settler Belonging 91
5. Indigenous Physiology: Metabolism, Cold Tolerance, and the Possibility of Human Hibernation 119
6. Spencer’s Double: The Decolonial Afterlife of a Postcolonial Museum Prop 143
Conclusion 167
Appendix 1. Dramatis Personae 173
Appendix 2. Timeline of Relevant Events 175
Notes 181
References 199
Index 235

Über Autor(innen)

Emma Kowal is Alfred Deakin Professor of Anthropology at Deakin University, author of Trapped in the Gap: Doing Good in Indigenous Australia, and coeditor of Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World.