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SUMMARY:Plants\, Places and Space: Exploring Indigenous Knowledge in the P
 acific\, c. 1768-1830 - Edwin Rose (University of Cambridge) 
DTSTART:20260317T130000Z
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CONTACT:María Inés Hernández
DESCRIPTION:Plants\, Places and Space: Exploring Indigenous Knowledge in t
 he Pacific\, c. 1768-1839\nThe period from the time of James Cook’s voya
 ges in the late 1760s to the mid nineteenth century saw more plant species
  being described as ‘new’ to European natural history than ever before
  or since. Central to this was increased travels in the Pacific—during w
 hich European naturalists placed extensive reliance on information supplie
 d by Indigenous people. After giving an overview of earlier accounts\, thi
 s talk explores the extensive archive of botanist Allan Cunningham (1791
 –1839) who was employed on the recommendation of Joseph Banks as the Kin
 g’s Collector for Kew\, one of the first state funded appointments of it
 s kind\, to collect and record the plants of Australia and New Zealand in 
 the early nineteenth century. Cunningham relied on accounts given by Indig
 enous Australians and Māori when collecting\, tabulating descriptions of 
 the geographical distribution and uses of plants with the construction of 
 a new ‘statistical’ botany of these regions. In this talk I demonstrat
 e how information obtained from Indigenous people\, through a variety of d
 iverse means that represent the fraught political landscape in a period re
 ferred to as ‘the age of revolutions\,’ shaped systems of classifying 
 the natural world often regarded as the invention of naturalists based in 
 European institutions. 
LOCATION:Department of Geography\, Small Lecture Theatre
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