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'Why did they take him away?' The theft of Neddy Larkin
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'Why did they take him away?' The theft of Neddy Larkin

Robert Garbutt, Ros Sten, Jenny Smith, Dianne Harrington, Thelma James and Mickey Ryan
History and Anthropology, Vol.28(5), pp.584-604
2017
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Arts and Humanities Social and Behavioral Sciences Human remains collecting Australian aborigine Peabody Museum of American archaeology and ethnology modes of ethnology modes of existence Neddy Larkin Frederic Ward Putnam George Amos Dorsey Adolph Peter Goodwin Historical Studies Anthropology Other Cultural Understanding

Neddy Larkin, a Bundjalung man from New South Wales, Australia, was stolen from his grave and in 1891 sold to the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, MA. This paper uses the methodology and concepts outlined in Latour’s An Inquiry into Modes of Existence to chart Neddy Larkin’s transitions from kinsman to scientific data.

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