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SUMMARY:Reading colonial photography: the publication and reception of A P
 hrenologist Amongst the Todas (1873) - James Poskett (Department of Histor
 y and Philosophy of Science)
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CONTACT:Edwin Rose
DESCRIPTION:This talk follows phrenological photographs as they travelled 
 back and forth across the imperial world. As a case study\, I take the ser
 ies of photographs featured in William Elliot Marshall's _A Phrenologist A
 mongst the Todas_ (1873). The nineteen photographs in this book were origi
 nally taken in the Nilgiri Hills\, in southern India. Together\, the photo
 graphs and text document the phrenology of the Todas\, a pastoral hill tri
 be living in the Nilgiris. Marshall's book circulated widely. It was read 
 by many of the most influential evolutionary and anthropological thinkers 
 of the late nineteenth century including Charles Darwin\, E.B. Tylor\, Jea
 n Louis Armand de Quatrefages and W.H.R. Rivers. To date\, historians have
  treated photography in India as relatively disconnected from the wider wo
 rld. But as I argue in this talk\, the history of photography in India nee
 ds to be understood\, like the history of colonial photography more genera
 lly\, as part of a global history of material exchange. It was through cir
 culation and reception that photography and phrenology became intertwined 
 with evolutionary thought and colonial power.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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