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SUMMARY:&quot\;The Tasmanian Aborigines and the Search for the Missing Lin
 k&quot\; - Elise Juzda
DTSTART:20070510T160000Z
DTEND:20070510T173000Z
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CONTACT:Su Lin Lewis
DESCRIPTION:Following the demise of the last full-blooded Tasmanian Aborig
 ines in the 1870s\, cultural and physical anthropologists posited that the
  'lost race' had been the most savage human group in the world\, and that 
 their decline had been due to their innate biological inferiority. In stud
 ying the vestiges of Tasmanian culture and their osteological remains\, an
 thropologists attempted to determine 'scientifically' that the Aborigines 
 had been doomed to distinction as a primitive\, non-adaptive link in the e
 volutionary chain. I will attempt to show that such studies\, undertaken i
 n the decades immediately following the Tasmanians decline\, were employed
  to account for the extinction of the Tasmanians as an inevitable occuranc
 e\, and to absolve colonial administrators of blame.
LOCATION:Boys Smith Room\, St. John's
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