Part Three – Consolidation: the Science of Race and Aboriginal Australians, 1860-1885

Table of Contents

Chapter 4. British Anthropological Thought in Colonial Practice

The ubiquity of race

The lure of Aboriginal bodies — the Darwinians

Metropolitan ideas and the colonial 'field'

The lure of Aboriginal bodies — the polygenists

Conclusion

References

Chapter 5. 'Three Living Australians' and the Société d'Anthropologie de Paris, 1885

Aboriginal Australians in 19th-century French anthropology

Cunningham's troupe and Topinard's 'presentation'

'Arguments about Aborigines'

Broca and human hybridity

Topinard and Aboriginal Australians

Topinard and the two races theory

Hamy and the push for ethnography

Houzé and polygeny

Jacques and the cultural perspective

Conclusion

References