Author: Lorenzo Niles FowlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Phrenological Almanac and Physiological Guide, for the Year of Our Lord ...
Author: Lorenzo Niles FowlerBeauty and the Brain
Author: Rachel E. WalkerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226822567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Examining the history of phrenology and physiognomy, Beauty and the Brain proposes a bold new way of understanding the connection between science, politics, and popular culture in early America. Between the 1770s and the 1860s, people all across the globe relied on physiognomy and phrenology to evaluate human worth. These once-popular but now discredited disciplines were based on a deceptively simple premise: that facial features or skull shape could reveal a person’s intelligence, character, and personality. In the United States, these were culturally ubiquitous sciences that both elite thinkers and ordinary people used to understand human nature. While the modern world dismisses phrenology and physiognomy as silly and debunked disciplines, Beauty and the Brain shows why they must be taken seriously: they were the intellectual tools that a diverse group of Americans used to debate questions of race, gender, and social justice. While prominent intellectuals and political thinkers invoked these sciences to justify hierarchy, marginalized people and progressive activists deployed them for their own political aims, creatively interpreting human minds and bodies as they fought for racial justice and gender equality. Ultimately, though, physiognomy and phrenology were as dangerous as they were popular. In addition to validating the idea that external beauty was a sign of internal worth, these disciplines often appealed to the very people who were damaged by their prejudicial doctrines. In taking physiognomy and phrenology seriously, Beauty and the Brain recovers a vibrant—if largely forgotten—cultural and intellectual universe, showing how popular sciences shaped some of the greatest political debates of the American past.
The Phrenological Almanac and Psychological Annual. For the Years 1842, 1843, 1844, 1845 ... Edited by D. G. Goyder
Author: The American Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated
Author: The American Phrenological Journal and Repository of Science, Literature and General Intelligence
Author: The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated
Author: American Phrenological Journal
Author: Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Author: