Book Review: Paul Turnbull on the dark history of skull collecting

Knapman, Gareth

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Book Review: Paul Turnbull on the dark history of skull collecting

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2019-08-21

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Knapman, Gareth

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Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia, by Paul Turnbull, Gewerbestrasse, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan/Springer International Publishing, 2017, 428 pp., €114.99 (hardcover and softcover), ISBN: 978-3-319-51874-9, Publisher’s website: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-51874-9#about

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https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733807534

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History Australia

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10.1080/14490854.2019.1636681

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