Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia Kowal Emma
Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia Kowal Emma In Haunting Biology Emma Kowal recounts the troubled history of Western biological studies of Indigenous Australians and asks how we…
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Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia Kowal Emma
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. 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. Kowal illustrates how the material persistence of samples over decades and centuries folds together the fates of different scientific methodologies.
By linking this history to contemporary genomics and twenty-first-century Indigeneity, Kowal outlines the 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.