2010- Pacific Renaissance: Laboratory for the Study of Cultural Globalization

Our seminar this year picks up where we left off last year with our work on Empires and Science: Contact, Authority, Collaboration. The aim of last year’s workshop was to alert teachers to possibilities for incorporating the history of science into world history and world studies courses. Sciences that were touched upon included the exact sciences (mathematics), navigation, material medica, ornithology and botany. This year we focus on anthropology, the social science most relevant for thinking about representations of the world. Following the inclinations of several of our participants in the 2008 workshop, we locate our interest in anthropology in Melanesia, that part of the world that some of its students see as the most anthropologized place on earth.

The Program

Reading Group Monthly Materials 2010