Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia: By Paul Turnbull. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. 428. €29.99 paper.

Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia: By Paul Turnbull. The book's structure is chronological but has a focus on what Turnbull calls "the long nineteenth century" (14) when the collection of Indigenous remains was guided by often changing theoretical and intellectual interests. According to Turnbull, these activities resulted in the remains of approximately 6,000 Indigenous Australians being collected and sent to scientific institutions, first overseas and then to domestic museums. [Extracted from the article]