Phrenology and the average person, 1840-1940
| Autor: | Fenneke Sysling |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
History
Psychoanalysis media_common.quotation_subject Phrenology 06 humanities and the arts History of statistics Normal people Genius 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine 060105 history of science technology & medicine History and Philosophy of Science 0601 history and archaeology Psychology Popular science 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Normality media_common |
| Zdroj: | History of the Human Sciences, 34(2), 27-45 |
| Popis: | The popular science of phrenology is known for its preoccupation with geniuses and criminals, but this article shows that phrenologists also introduced ideas about the ‘average’ person. Popular phrenologists in the US and the UK examined the heads of their clients to give an indication of their character. Based on the publications of phrenologists and on a large collection of standardized charts with clients’ scores, this article analyses their definition of what they considered to be the ‘average’. It can be concluded that phrenologists were some of the first to teach individuals to see their identity in relation to an imagined statistical community. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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