Person
Turnbull, Paul
- Occupation
- Science historian
- Website
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7101-1538
Summary
Paul Turnbull was made an Emeritus Professor of History and Digital Humanities in the School of Humanities, University of Tasmania in 2018. For further details on his long career and a comprehensive list of his publications see his ORCID entry.
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Published resources
Books
- Turnbull, Paul, Science, museums and collecting the indigenous dead in colonial Australia (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 428 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Turnbull, P., 'A judicious collector: Edward Charles Stirling and the procurement of Aboriginal boodily remains in South Australia, c. 1880 - 1912' in The body divided: human beings and human "material" in modern medical history, Ferber, S.; and Wilde, S., eds (Farnham, U.K.: Ashgate, 2011), p. 22. Details
- Turnbull, Paul, 'British Anthropological Thought in Colonial Practice: the appropriation of Indigenous Australian bodies, 1860-1880' in Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the Science of Race 1750-1940, Douglas, Bronwen and Ballard, Chris, eds (Canberra: ANU E Press, 2008), pp. 205-28. Details
- Turnbull, Paul, 'Legally acquired? The moral and legal context of collecting Indigenous Australian human remains in colonial Australia' in The great laboratory of humanity: collection, patrimony and the repatriation of human remains, Minicia, Maria Teresa, ed. (Padua, Italy: CLEUP, 2020), pp. 235-70. Details
Journal Articles
- Turnbull, Paul, '"Ramsay's regime": the Australian Museum and the procurement of Aboriginal bodies, c. 1874 - 1900', Aboriginal history, 15 (2) (1991), 108-21. Details
- Turnbull, Paul, 'To What Strange Uses: the Procurement and Use of Aboriginal Peoples' bodies in Early Colonial Australia', Voices, 4 (3) (1994), 5-20. Details
- Turnbull, Paul, 'The 'Aboriginal' Australian brain in the scientific imagination, 1820-1880', Somatechnics, 2 (2) (2012), 171-97. Details
- Turnbull, Paul, 'Australian museums, Aboriginal skeletal remains, and the imagining of human evolutionary history', Museum & society, 13 (1) (2015), 72-87. https://doi.org/10.29311/mas.v13i1.318. Details
- Turnbull, Paul, '"Thrown into the fossil gap": Indigenous Australian ancestral bodily remains in the hands of early Darwinian anatomists, c. 1860 - 1916', Studies in the history and philosophy of science, 92 (2022), 1-11, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.12.010. Details
Reviews
- Roginski, Alexandra, Science and power in the nineteenth-century Tasman world: popular phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (2023)
Turnbull, Paul, History Australia, 21 (1), (2024), 134-6. Details
See also
- Pybus, Cassandra, A very secret trade: the dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2024), 318 pp. https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Cassandra-Pybus-Very-Secret-Trade-9781761066344. Pages 270. Details
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Created: 24 July 2024, Last modified: 6 August 2024