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2008 Workshop: Empires and Science

PRELIMINARY READINGS

GEORGE SALIBA

1. Professor Saliba’s web page:
http://www.columbia.edu/~gas1/saliba.html


1. Announcement
2. Introduction
3. Workshop Program
4. List of Speakers and Topics
5. Preliminary Readings
6. Credits
7. Questions
8. Suggestions for Projects
9. Biographical Sketches

Under “recent research” you will find “Whose Science is Arabic
Science in Renaissance Europe?”

2. Saliba, George, Islamic Science and the Making of the European
Renaissance
, (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007)

BENJAMIN ELMAN

1. Professor Elman’s web page:
http://eastasia.princeton.edu/content/view/75/149/

You will find a link to E-Papers:
http://www.princeton.edu/~elman/

2. Elman, Benjamin, On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1500-1900, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005)

3. Elmn, Benjamin, A Cultural History of Modern Science in Late Imperial China, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006)

SHELDON POLLOCK

1. Professor Pollock’s web page is:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/mealac/faculty/pollock/

2. Professor Pollock suggests the short articles by Pollock, Elman,
Cook, Ebendary, and El-Rouayheb at:
http://www.iias.nl/?q=newsletter-43

3. For papers connected with Professor Pollock’s project “Sanskrit Knowledge Systems on the Eve of Colonialism,” see:
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pollock/sks/papers/index.html

ANTONIO BARRERA


1. Onésimo T. Almeida, "Portugal and the Dawn of Modern Science," in Portugal, The Pathfinder: Journeys from the Medieval toward the Modern World 1300-ca. 1600, edited by George D. Winius (Madison: The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, Ltd., 1995).

2. David C. Goodman, Power and Penury: Government, Technology, and Science in Philip II's Spain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).

3. Ursula Lamb, "Cosmographers of Seville: Nautical Science and Social Experience," in First Images of America: The Impact of the New World on the Old, edited by Fredi Chiappelli, 675-686 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976).

4. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Nature, empire, and nation : explorations of the history of science in the Iberian world (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2006).

5. Paula Susan De Vos, "The Science of Spices: Empiricism and Economic Botany in the Early Spanish Empire." Journal of World History 17, no. 4 (2006): 399-427.

6. Daniela Bleichmar, "Books, Bodies, and Fields: Sixteenth-Century Transatlantic Encounters with New World Materia Medica," in Colonial botany : science, commerce, and politics in the early modern world, edited by Londa L. Schiebinger and Claudia Swan, 83-99 (Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004).

7. Alison Sandman, "Mirroring the World: Sea Charts, Navigations, and Territorial Claims in Sixteenth-Century Spain," in Merchants & marvels : commerce, science, and art in early modern Europe, edited by Pamela H. Smith and Paula Findlen, 83-108 (New York: Routledge, 2002).

8. Susana Gómez López, "Natural Collections in the Spanish Renaissance," in From private to public: natural collections and museums, edited by Marco Beretta (Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications/USA, 2005).

9. Marcy Norton, "Tasting Empire: Chocolate and the European Internalization of Mesoamerican Aesthetics." The American historical review 111, no. 3 (2006): 660-692.

10. The special issue of Colonial Latin American Review 15, no. 1 (2006): 55-79: articles on the Spanish Empire and science.

11. Antonio Barrera-Osorio, Experiencing nature : the Spanish American empire and the early scientific revolution. 1st ed (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2006).

DAVID ARNOLD

1. David Arnold, The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856, Seattle, 2006, chapter 5: 'Networks and Knowledges'

2. Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan, 'Introduction', in Schiebinger and Swan (eds), Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World, Philaldelphia, 2005 (in fact, the essays in this book are worth looking at as well)

3. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences, chapter 5 'Classifying'

SHANKAR ASWANI

All except the last of these, which is not yet published, are available at:
http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/aswani/

1. Shankar Aswani and Richard J. Hamilton, (2004) "Integrating indigenous ecological knowledge and customary sea tenure with marine and social science for conservation of bumphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum) in the Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands"

2. Shankar Aswani and Matthew Lauer, (2006) "Benthic maping using aerial photo interpretation and resident taxa inventories for designing marine protected areas"

3. Aswani, S., and M. Lauer. 2006. Incorporating fishers' local knowledge and behavior into geographical information systems (GIS) for designing marine protected areas in Oceania. Human Organization 65(1): 80-101.

4. Shankar Aswani, S. Albert, A. Sabetian and T. Furusawa, (2007) "Customary management as precautionary and adaptive principles for protecting coral reefs in Oceania"

DAMON SALESA

Darcy, Paul. The People of the Sea: Environment, Identity, and
History in Oceania
, ( Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006)
Diaz, Vicente. Sacred Vessels: Navigating Tradition and Identity in
Micronesia
. (Honolulu: Pacific Islanders in Communication,
1999.), [Film]

Hau'ofa, Epeli. "Our Sea of Islands." The Contemporary Pacific 6, no.
1 (1994): 147-61.

Jolly, Margaret. "On the Edge? Deserts, Oceans, Islands." The
Contemporary Pacific
13, no. 2 (2001): 417-66.

Lewis, David. We, the Navigators; the Ancient Art of Landfinding in
the Pacific
, (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1972)

Salesa, T. Damon. ""Travel-Happy" Samoa: Colonialism, Samoan
Migration and A "Brown Pacific"." New Zealand Journal of History
37, no. 2 (2003): 171-88.

Tamasese, TuiAtua Tupua. "The Riddle in Samoan History: The
Relevance of Language, Names, Honorifics, Genealogy, Ritual and
Chant to Historical Analysis." Journal of Pacific History 29, no. 1
(1994): 65-79.

Turnbull, David. "Comparing Knowledge Systems: Pacific Navigation
and Western Science." In Ocean and Coastal Studies: Science of
Pacific Island Peoples
Volume I, edited by Linda Crowl, 129-44.
(Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies, 1994)

NANCY JACOBS

1. Beinart, William. "Men, Science, Travel, and Nature in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Cape." Journal of Southern African Studies 24 (1998): 775-99.

2. Camerini, Jane. "Wallace in the Field." Osiris 11 (1996): 44-65.
Davis, Natalie Zemon. Women on the Margins. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1995.

3. Harries, Patrick. "Field Sciences in Scientific Fields: Enthnology, Botany and the Early Ethnographic Monograph in the Work of H.-A. Junod." In Science and Society in Southern Africa, edited by Saul Dubow, 11-41. Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 2000.

4. Jacobs, Nancy J. "The Intimate Politics of Ornithology in Colonial Africa." Comparative Studies in Society and History 48 (2006).

5. Raffles, Hugh. "The Uses of Butterflies." American Ethnologist 28 (2001): 513-48.

6. Sanjek, Roger. "Anthropology's Hidden Colonialism: Assistants and Their Ethnographers." Anthropology Today 9 (1993): 13-18.

7. Schumaker, Lyn. Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. Especially Chapter 7,

8. Secord, Anne. "Science in the Pub: Artisan Botanists in Early Nineteenth-Century Lancashire." History of Science 32 (1994): 269-315.

9. Shepherd, Nick. "'When the Hand That Holds the Trowel Is Black. . .': Disciplinary Practices of Self-Representation and the Issue of 'Native Labour in Archaeology." Journal of Social Archaeology 3 (2003): 334-52.

FA-TI FAN


1. ch. 5 of my book, British Naturalists in Qing China, as a starting point for discussion.

2. "Science in a Chinese Entrepôt: British Naturalists and their Chinese Associates in Old Canton," Osiris 18 (2003): 60-78

3. Fan, Fa-ti, British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004), especially Chapter Five

 

   

 

     


 

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