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SUMMARY:Instructions for race-making: skull collecting at Edinburgh Univer
 sity's Natural History Museum - Linda Andersson Burnett (Uppsala Universit
 y)
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CONTACT:Tom Banbury
DESCRIPTION:Eighteenth and 19th-century European empires abounded with nat
 ural-history instructions for travellers and colonial settlers on how best
  to organise travels\, gather information\, and collect and preserve speci
 mens and artefacts. My presentation will focus on a set of instructions pe
 nned in 1817 by Professor Robert Jameson at the University of Edinburgh. T
 he instructions were designed to encourage Britons overseas to collect for
  the university's natural history museum. Their contents ranged from techn
 ical guidance on how to preserve insects to recommendations about what to 
 collect\, such as the 'warlike instruments of different Nations and Tribes
 '. For Jameson\, and many contemporaries\, the study of mankind was an imp
 ortant part of the natural historian's remit. Jameson urged people to coll
 ect human remains and skulls in particular. During his museum stewardship 
 a large number of skulls arrived from across the globe. Through an analysi
 s of Jameson's instructions and his network of collectors\, which encompas
 sed a wide range of colonial actors\, I will discuss the co-construction o
 f 'race' during the first half of the 19th century.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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