[…] The child-figure of nineteenth-century science appeared as an instrumental, and indeed vital,…

deathlonging : deathlonging : [&hellip;] The child-figure of nineteenth-century science appeared as an instrumental, and indeed vital, bodily container for human variation across the globe and through historical time. Progressive development, figured through this child, constituted and ordered a plethora of human differences in hierarchical series, including child-ness itself. The ‘‘normal’’…