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The ghosts of settler colonial science: David S. Trigger, Lynette Russell, Warwick Anderson, Emma Kowal, ‘Book Review Forum: Haunting biology: Science and indigeneity in Australia’, The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 2024

03Feb25

Abstract: Emma Kowal’s 2023 monograph, Haunting Biology, takes up the dual task of documenting the
chequered history of Western biological studies of Indigenous Australians and asking what this
means for the contemporary field of Indigenous genomics. Teeming with ghosts—the spectres
of methodologies, human body parts, and racial theories—Kowal’s storied book links history
with contemporary genomics in a critical exploration of 21st- century Indigeneity. In this book
review forum, three scholars (David Trigger, Lynette Russell, and Warwick Anderson) engage
with Kowal’s work, after which Emma Kowal responds.


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