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Opening address: the magic of the skull. ‘Commercium craniorum’ in the nineteenth century

✍ Scribed by Antonie M. Luyendijk-Elshout

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 78 KB
Volume: 7
Category: Article
ISSN: 1047-482X
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1212(199711/12)7:6<571::aid-oa330>3.0.co;2-t

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✦ Synopsis

Interest in skull-collecting started with the concept of phrenology, as postulated by Franz Joseph Gall in the late eighteenth century. After the denouncement of his doctrines around 1850 skulls were studied as indicators of national character. A lively exchange of skulls between anthropologists took place. This so-called `commercium craniorum' involved scientists such as Anders Retzius in Sweden, Joseph Barnard Davis in England, and Samuel Morton in America.

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