Paul Turnbull

The ethics of repatriation

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 05-03-2020

DOI: 10.4324/9780203730966-60

Review

Publisher: Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine

Date: 2010

DOI: 10.5401/HEALTHHIST.12.1.126

PaperMiner—a real-time spatiotemporal visualization for newspaper articles

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Date: 28-01-2019

DOI: 10.1093/LLC/FQY084

Paper Miner: Geo-Temporal Indexes for Australian Newspapers Online

Publisher: No publisher found

Date: 2013

DOI: 10.14264/UQL.2017.23

Paul Turnbull on the dark history of skull collecting

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 21-08-2019

DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2019.1636681

Amalie Dietrich and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Queensland

Publisher: The Stacks Lib AAC

Date: 2020

DOI: 10.35515/ZFA/ASJ.3334/201920.15

International Repatriations of Indigenous Human Remains and Its Complexities: the Australian Experience

Publisher: University of Leicester

Date: 23-03-2020

DOI: 10.29311/MAS.V18I1.3246

Abstract: In this article, I discuss how returns of Ancestral Remains of Indigenous Australian communities from overseas museums and other scientific institutions since the early 1990s have occurred in the context of changing Australian government repatriation policies and practices. The article then highlights how the past three decades have seen numerous instances of the return of Ancestral Remains to their community proving difficult and stressful because of the loss of ancestral lands, life-ways and the experience of colonial subjugation. As I explain, returning the dead has challenged the living by requiring them to address questions of authority, power and historical legacies of colonialism, notably in the case of those communities seeking the restoration of ownership of their ancestral country within the framework of Australia’s current national and state land laws.

Collecting and colonial violence

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 05-03-2020

DOI: 10.4324/9780203730966-27

‘Thrown into the fossil gap’: Indigenous Australian ancestral bodily remains in the hands of early Darwinian anatomists, c. 1860–1916

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 04-2022

DOI: 10.1016/J.SHPSA.2021.12.010

Abstract: This article examines in contextual depth the investigations of Indigenous Australian ancestral bodily remains by four influential British Darwinian comparative anatomists active between 1860 and 1919: George Rolleston (1829-1881), William Henry Flower (1831-1899), Alexander Macalister (1844-1919), and William Turner (1832-1916). It also reviews the examination of the structural morphology of the brains of four Indigenous Australians by Macalister's protégé, Wynfrid Lawrence Henry Duckworth (1870-1956). Since the 1970s, Darwinian scientists of the last third of the long nineteenth century have been represented in connection with the efforts of Indigenous Australian communities to have the remains of their ancestors returned for burial, as having acquired and investigated their skulls and other bodily structures to prove their evolutionary inferiority, and thereby legitimate their violent dispossession and near enslavement under so-called 'protective' regimes, where they struggled to maintain their families' health and well-being, their languages and culture. Racialized perceptions of Indigenous Australians as an evolutionarily primitive human type were perniciously influential among Australian-based and metropolitan British scientists, intellectuals, politicians and government officials during the last third of the long nineteenth century. However, as this article aims to show, by contextual scrutiny of the reportage of these leading four anatomists on their investigation of the skulls and brains of the first peoples of Tasmania and mainland Australia, they had no interest in proving Indigenous inferiority. They were driven by curiosity as to what investigation of the bodily remains of Indigenous Australians might disclose about the evolutionary genealogy of humankind. Hence, we would do well to see the outcomes of their investigations as having more complex connections with racialized perceptions of Australia's first peoples beyond medico-scientific circles, and the formulation of colonialist solutions for managing their future in the aftermath of dispossession by settler colonialism.

Griffith University

Location: Australia

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University Of Tasmania

Location: Australia

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University Of Qeensland

Location: Australia

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James Cook University

Location: Australia

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Pacific Futures Network: Security, Governance And Development In The Pacific Islands Region

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End Date: 2003

Funder: Australian Research Council

A History Of The Gugu Badhun People

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End Date: 2006

Funder: Australian Research Council

Australia Research Network: Integrating And Value Adding Australian Research Through Production, Enhancement And Communications Capacities, Across The Humanities, Social Sciences And Arts

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Return, Reconcile, Renew: Understanding The History, Effects And Opportunities Of Repatriation And Building An Evidence Base For The Future

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Funder: Australian Research Council

Networked Knowledge For Repatriation Communities

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Funder: Australian Research Council

Profit And Loss: The Commercial Trade In Indigenous Human Remains

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End Date: 2022

Funder: Australian Research Council

Indigenous Collections And Knowledge Archives Research Network

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Funder: Australian Research Council

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