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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Kowal, Emma
Titre(s) : Haunting biology [Texte imprimé] : science and indigeneity in Australia / Emma Kowal
Publication : Durham (N.C.) : Duke University Press, 2023
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xv-248 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Collection : Experimental futures
Lien à la collection : Experimental futures
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"In Haunting Biology Emma Kowal recounts the troubled history of Western biological
studies of Indigenous Australians and asks how we now might see contemporary genomics,
especially that conducted by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scientists. Kowal
illustrates how the material persistence of samples over decades and centuries folds
together the fates of different scientific methodologies. Blood, bones, hair, comparative
anatomy, human biology, physiology, and anthropological genetics all haunt each other
across time and space, together with the many racial theories they produced and sustained.
The stories Kowal tells feature a variety of ghostly presences: a dead anatomist,
a fetishized piece of hair hidden away in a war trunk, and an elusive white Indigenous
person. By linking this history to contemporary genomics and twenty-first-century
indigeneity, Kowal outlines the fraught complexities, perils, and potentials of studying
Indigenous biological difference in the twenty-first century"
Sujet(s) : Biologie humaine -- Recherche -- Australie
Génétique des populations humaines -- Recherche -- Australie
Ethnohistoire -- Australie
Aborigènes d'Australie -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
305.899 15 (23e éd.) = Sociologie des Aborigènes australiens et tasmaniens
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781478025375
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47354234t
Notice n° :
FRBNF47354234
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Living with ghosts ; Blood, bones, and the ghosts of the ancestors ; A century
in the life of an Aboriginal hair sample ; Race and nation : Aboriginal whiteness
and settler belonging ; Indigenous physiology : metabolism, cold tolerance, hibernation,
and the "racial factor" ; Spencer's double : the decolonial afterlife of a postcolonial
museum prop