Between the mid-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the cranial science of phrenology shone as a popular practice in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, mediating between bodies. Phrenologists offered private readings and staged chaotic performances for diverse audiences in what ultimately constituted commentary on the malleability of identity in the colonies
This paper looks at phrenological charts as mediators of (pseudo-)scientific knowledge to individual...
Although never unanimously recognised as a respected science, phrenology was a highly influential an...
Phrenology is the doctrine that held that the moral and intellectual faculties of the mind were inna...
In the first half of the nineteenth century phrenology, which was claimed to be the first science of...
This paper contradicts the view that the interest in phrenology in colonial Australia peaked in th...
Like many nineteenth-century sciences, phrenology had global aspirations. Skulls were collected in E...
In the nineteenth century the science of phrenology was a cultural force that impacted American soci...
International audienceThe history of phrenology in France has a number of unique features. It was in...
International audienceWritten off as pseudo-science for more than a century, phrenology is now under...
Phrenology is based on correlating character traits with visible or palpable cranial bumps (or depre...
In the sociology of the body, the analysis of physiognomy is a neglected topic. The idea that one ca...
Images have been restricted due to copyright. A print copy of the full text and images are available...
While this paper begins with a definition of phrenology and its theoretical foundations, the primary...
Ah, does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really...
Sketch of the character of Miss Sarah Benson Mather by A.S. Hamilton, who practised phrenology. M19...
This paper looks at phrenological charts as mediators of (pseudo-)scientific knowledge to individual...
Although never unanimously recognised as a respected science, phrenology was a highly influential an...
Phrenology is the doctrine that held that the moral and intellectual faculties of the mind were inna...
In the first half of the nineteenth century phrenology, which was claimed to be the first science of...
This paper contradicts the view that the interest in phrenology in colonial Australia peaked in th...
Like many nineteenth-century sciences, phrenology had global aspirations. Skulls were collected in E...
In the nineteenth century the science of phrenology was a cultural force that impacted American soci...
International audienceThe history of phrenology in France has a number of unique features. It was in...
International audienceWritten off as pseudo-science for more than a century, phrenology is now under...
Phrenology is based on correlating character traits with visible or palpable cranial bumps (or depre...
In the sociology of the body, the analysis of physiognomy is a neglected topic. The idea that one ca...
Images have been restricted due to copyright. A print copy of the full text and images are available...
While this paper begins with a definition of phrenology and its theoretical foundations, the primary...
Ah, does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really...
Sketch of the character of Miss Sarah Benson Mather by A.S. Hamilton, who practised phrenology. M19...
This paper looks at phrenological charts as mediators of (pseudo-)scientific knowledge to individual...
Although never unanimously recognised as a respected science, phrenology was a highly influential an...
Phrenology is the doctrine that held that the moral and intellectual faculties of the mind were inna...
DOI
Add to ORKG