NINE Facing the Past: Human Skulls, Facial Reconstruction, and National Identity in the Middle East

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Note from the Series Editors v
3. Contents vii
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction 1
6. PART ONE Stability and Circulation
7. ONE Origins of Races, Organs of Intellect: Polygenism, Political Order, and the Enlightenment Construction of Cranial Race Science 21
8. TWO Unbecoming Subjects Psychiatry, Race, and Disordering the Human 48
9. THREE Locating the Child in Racial Science: Scenes from Latin America 75
10. FOUR Race and Sameness: On Ordering the Human and the Specificities of Us-ness and Other-ness 98
11. FIVE The Racial Calculus: Security and Policy During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic 120
12. PART TWO Purity and Mixture
13. SIX Biometric Hybridity: Anglo-Indians, Race, and National Science in India, 1916–1969 139
14. SEVEN “Multicultural Genes in Our Blood”? Genetic Governance and Biocultural Purity in South Korea 161
15. EIGHT The Dilemmas of Racial Classification in Brazil: Reflections on Two Contemporary Case Studies 182
16. PART THREE Past and Promise
17. NINE Facing the Past: Human Skulls, Facial Reconstruction, and National Identity in the Middle East 201
18. TEN Racism and Weightism in the Māori Community: From Weight-Focused Health to Indigenous Solutions 227
19. ELEVEN After Race Classification: Grappling with South African Indigenous DNA in Practice 242
20. TWELVE The South Asian Heart Disease Paradox: History, Epidemiology, and Contested Narratives of Susceptibility 268
21. THIRTEEN Roots of Coincidence: The Racial Politics of COVID-19 295
22. Contributors 315
23. Index 319