Experimental futures haunting biology

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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.



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.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 17 november 2023

Aantal pagina's: 264

Hoofdauteur: Emma Kowal

Hoofduitgeverij: Duke University Press

Product breedte: 152 mm

Product lengte: 229 mm

Verpakking breedte: 152 mm

Verpakking lengte: 229 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 386 g

EAN: 9781478025375

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