The Archaeology of Race

The Eugenic Ideas of Francis Galton and Flinders Petrie

The Archaeology of Race

The Eugenic Ideas of Francis Galton and Flinders Petrie

Debbie Challis (Author)

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How much was archaeology founded on prejudice? The Archaeology of Race explores the application of racial theory to interpret the past in Britain during the late Victorian and Edwardian period. It investigates how material culture from ancient Egypt and Greece was used to validate the construction of racial hierarchies. Specifically focusing on Francis Galton's ideas around inheritance and race, it explores how the Egyptologist Flinders Petrie applied these in his work in Egypt and in his political beliefs. It examines the professional networks formed by societies, such as the Anthropological Institute, and their widespread use of eugenic ideas in analysing society.

Archaeology of Race draws on archives and objects from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and the Galton collection at UCL. These collections are used to explore anti-Semitism, skull collecting, New Race theory and physiognomy. These collections give insight into the relationship between Galton and Petrie and place their ideas in historical context.

Foreword by Natasha McEnroe, former Curator of the Galton Collection and Director of the Florence Nightingale Museum.
Introduction
Races and Men Before the 1860s
Galton and Genius
Fitting Aesthetics
Photographing Races from Antiquity
Greek Art, Greek Faces?
Peopling the Old Testament
Akhenaten's Heredity
The New Ancient Race
Flinders Petrie and Edwardian Politics
Memphis Heads
Afterword by Kathleen Sheppard, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Appendices

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Published	14 Mar 2013
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	288
ISBN	9781780934204
Imprint	Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations	40 bw illus
Dimensions	234 x 156 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Debbie Challis

Debbie Challis has worked in London's major museum…

Reveals an unexpected link between two major figures in early anthropology, and one that adds weight to my favourite Darwin quote, that: 'Ignorance more frequently breeds confidence than does knowledge'.

Steve Jones, The Lancet
The Archaeology of Race: the Eugenic Ideas of Francis Galton and Flinders Petrie tells the tale and pays particular attention to the role of attractiveness in defining ancestry. The book has a detailed, indeed exhaustive, analysis of some of the material in UCL's collections, and itself has rather a whiff of the museum (with “multiple visualities at play”). Even so, The Archaeology of Race reveals an unexpected link between two major figures in early anthropology, and one that adds weight to my favourite Darwin quote, that: “Ignorance more frequently breeds confidence than does knowledge”.

Steve Jones, The Lancet