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SUMMARY:The upland exchange: village life in natural history\, 1771–1832
  - Patrick Anthony (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
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CONTACT:Olin Moctezuma
DESCRIPTION:This talk centres the mountain village of Muggendorf (Germany)
  in the history of natural history. It traces the guiding and collecting e
 nterprise of the family Wunder over three generations\, alongside correspo
 nding generations of naturalists who came 'like pilgrims' each spring afte
 r the snows had melted. Wainwrights by trade\, the Wunders first turned to
  natural history as a source of supplemental income in 1771\, the 'Year of
  Hunger'. For over a half-century\, their cabinet supplied collections in 
 Erlangen and Bayreuth with rare plants and fossils\, like the antediluvial
  megafauna that drew the likes of Buckland and Cuvier to Muggendorf. While
  the market for natural trade and travel came from distant courts and univ
 ersity towns\, traditional centres of science\, the enterprise itself – 
 the labour\, infrastructure\, and organization – came from a marginal up
 land community. There\, the combination of learned interests and rural eco
 nomy produced something altogether new: an _upland exchange_ in knowledge 
 and naturalia that gave form to natural science ca. 1800\, in herbaria and
  geo-theory. I am especially interested in deploying working-class history
  perspectives (about inter-household collaboration\, for instance\, and ar
 tisanal notions of honour) to understand how the Wunders were not simply _
 discovered_ by Romantic visitors but active in promoting a commerce of sci
 entific goods and services. I close by suggesting the Wunders belong to a 
 larger social group in the history of science: across (and surely beyond) 
 central Europe\, highland families employed everyday working practices in 
 natural inquiry\, revealing the extent to which natural inquiry was itself
  embedded in the everyday.
LOCATION:Zoom and Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of
  Science
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