Phrenology

justification for slavery, it was a regular occurrence. Americans have tried to justify slavery by saying several things: it is the white man's burden to take care of Africans, slaves are biologically different, and even going to the extent of using pseudo phrenology and claiming that the bumps of the skulls of slaves were different. People were simply looking for any and all possible ways that they could make slavery look completely justifiable, and to them the bible was not out of the…

create a portrait for an individual by emphasizing their style of life, habits, and central traits. This approach led to the creation of fictional characters and eventually modern day literature. In the late 1700’s, Franz Gall developed the approach phrenology, or cranioscopy. He believed that there were 35 regions and organs of the mind. Bumps on the skull, and their thickness, indicated how developed that specific “organ” was, such as an individual with a bump above their ear was secretive.…

Megan Haug New Media Junior Seminar Response to The Body and The Archive, Allan Sekula September 25, 2015 Portraiture is nothing new to the visual artist; what is new to the visual artist is the medium of photography. Allan Sekula explores what it means to take a picture in modern society. There are many possibilities within the realm of photography. The power of this art form is a point of view without the interpretation of man. The camera is technically the one creating the photograph,…

Since the onset of the colonisation from 1778 of the Australian mainland by the Crown of Great Britain, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have been subject to numerous practices and policies by the governments of the time. This essay examines government policies primarily in Queensland of segregation and integration of Queensland’s Indigenous peoples and how this led to the removal of Indigenous children from their families (Stolen Generations). Crucial to the understanding of the…

*In the biography, “Time on Two Crosses,” multiple authors worked together to compile a large collection of writings by or about Bayard Rustin in effort to allow the readers to create an image of who he was and what he stood for. The life he lived was not a simple one; Bayard Rustin was a black activist that stood by the side of famous Civil Rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr., during most of the late 1950s to the early 1960s. He bled and struggled, like many others did during this time, for…

has evolved and transformed throughout time. In the early 1830s, Britain invaded Tasmanian territory off the coast of Australia, for these people who were in isolation for 10,000 years. The British saw these dark people as “uncivilized” as they lacked religion, and then began to execute them by the masses. By the time Governor Arthur was pressured to stop these killings, George Robinson, a missionary, was hired to help relocate these people who were left, to a different island and assimilate…

Contrary to the idea dispersed by Uttal’s (2001) book, fMRI and neuroimaging in general is not the phrenology of the twenty-first century. In a literature survey perform by Tressoldi et al. (2012), he and his colleagues discovered that 11.2% of the fMRI studies conducted between 2007 and 2011 aimed to differentiate between conflicting psychological theories…

practice of predicting a person’s future by creating connections based on the information found around them. For example, certain practices of fortune telling consist of palmistry (the act of foreseeing someone’s future by reading their palm) to phrenology (the act of reading tea leaves, or consulting tarot cards). Fortune telling is rooted in the idea of providing vague information, the interpretation of unclear messages, or a statement of inevitable events. When we analyze the theory of…

When I hear the word psychology, the first thing that pops into my mind is an image of a clinical psychologist asking questions to some guy laying on a chaise and later determining that some type of trauma in his life is causing him to act a certain way or think certain thoughts. But coming into this class and starting these chapter readings has really changed my view on the whole career field itself. I’ve always categorized psychology as a science but never did I imagine just how much of a…

and humanitarian reform are also considered modern intellectual developments that paved the way for psychology as a system of ideas (King et al., 2009). Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) produced the first map of the mind which became to be known as phrenology. This was the first attempt to map brain functions, although modern brain imaging technology has debunked his theories as being inaccurate and overly simplified. Naturalism asserts that all phenomenon are understandable by a set of laws or…