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Chapter four traces the journeys of Polynesian artifacts into Göttingen’s Academisches Museum, illustrating how their meanings shifted from culturally disruptive to museum-bound affirmations of Western progress. Finally, chapter five turns to anatomical collections and individuals’ global resistance to being objectified in the name of science. It argues that local communities—from Hanover to Aotearoa—defended alternate understandings of death and humanity, challenging the universalizing impulses of modern science. 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