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Hanged Man & the Body Thief: Finding Lives in a Museum Mystery by Alexandra Roginski (Paperback, 2015)

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1860. An Aboriginal labourer named Jim Crow is led to the scaffold of the Maitland Gaol in colonial New South Wales. Among the onlookers is the Scotsman AS Hamilton, who will take bizarre steps in the aftermath of the execution to exhume this young man's skull. Hamilton is a lecturer who travels the Australian colonies teaching phrelogy, a popular science that claims character and intellect can be judged from a person's head. For Hamilton, Jim Crow is an important prize. A century and a half later, researchers at Museum Victoria want to repatriate Jim Crow and other Aboriginal people from Hamilton's collection of human remains to their respective communities. But their only clues are damaged labels and skulls. With each new find, more questions emerge. Who was Jim Crow? Why was he executed? And how did he end up so far south in Melbourne? In a compelling and original work of history, Alexandra Roginski leads the reader through her extensive research aimed at finding the person within the museum piece. Reconstructing the narrative of a life and a theft, she crafts a case study that elegantly navigates between legal and Aboriginal history, heritage studies and biography. Alexandra Roginski explains the history behind the pseudo-science of phrelogy, popular in the nineteenth century in this video clip.

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Publisher
Monash University Publishing
ISBN-10
1922235660
ISBN-13
9781922235664
eBay Product ID (ePID)
212204589

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Author
Alexandra Roginski
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Regional History
Type
Textbook

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Weight
156g
Height
210mm
Width
135mm

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Place of Publication
Clayton, Vic
Spine
10mm
Author Biography
Alexandra Roginski lives in Canberra, where she is a doctoral candidate researching the history of popular phrenology at the Australian National University. Originally from Melbourne, she has written for The Age, the Big Issue, and specialist publications in education, research and development. Her interest in the history of science developed during a period when she was working in medical communications. In 2013, Alexandra was awarded an 1854 Student Scholarship from Museum Victoria, where she has also worked as a research assistant in Indigenous repatriation. This is her first book.
Date of Publication
01/06/2015
Country of Publication
Australia
Genre
Regional History

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