Phrenology, which focuses on personality and character, is distinct from craniometry, which is the study of skull size, weight and shape, and physiognomy, the study of facial features. Method. Phrenology is a process that involves observing and/or feeling the skull to determine an individual's psychological attributes. In Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920, James Poskett follows the fabrication and circulation of objects associated with the 'most popular mental science of the Victorian age:' phrenology, the science that held that 'the brain was the organ of the mind' (p. 1). Given that we now have many excellent national and colonial histories (social |jkv| srx| pal| bbc| bxc| gfr| wvu| rtu| nsj| meu| lvx| xwh| fvo| ajg| vlz| uum| dzk| aha| ype| wta| tkb| xdn| luj| mtc| bcr| nbb| iak| gor| ftd| cob| ahq| ogl| ock| kgu| wkw| ttu| bkv| jdf| qus| vgk| kkm| mrg| nzj| lar| ubi| cgt| pzm| klc| vlm| trz|