Correcting Perry’s Misleading Narrative: Historicizing James’s “Shady Excursions” into Phrenology

Phrenology belongs to a never-ending trend—sometimes verging on fanaticism (Noel and Carlson 1970, 694)—that, for many centuries, strives to correlate anatomy with behaviors and ultimately with des...

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F.J. Gall and the Phrenological Movement

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Dumont d'Urville's Phrenologist: Dumoutier and the Aesthetics of Races * Translated from French by Isabel Ollivier

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Psychoanalysis and Phrenology

Phrenologist at work, 1856.

Law and Phrenology

Mesmerism and Phrenology in Antebellum Charleston: "Enough of the Marvellous"

Clark Mills and the Phrenologist

On Gall's reputation and some recent “new phrenology”

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Previous articleNext article No AccessShould Phrenology Be Rediscovered?Harry J. JerisonHarry J. Jerison Search for more articles by this author Corrections to this articleErratumPDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Current Anthropology Volume 18, Number 4Dec., 1977 Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/201981 Views: 12Total views on this site Citations: 5Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1977 The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological ResearchPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:T.M. Preuss An Introduction to Human Brain Evolutionary Studies, (Jan 2020): 711–731.https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820584-6.00029-5Richard E. Brown Why Study the History of Neuroscience?, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 13 (May 2019).https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00082T.M. Preuss The Human Brain, (Jan 2017): 125–149.https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-420190-3.00008-9T.M. Preuss An Introduction to Human Brain Evolutionary Studies, (Jan 2017): 1–18.https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-804042-3.00101-9Wally Welker Why Does Cerebral Cortex Fissure and Fold?, (Jan 1990): 3–136.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3824-0_1Related articlesErratum19 Oct 2015Current Anthropology