Colonial Contexts of Knowledge Acquisition
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Colonial Contexts of Knowledge Acquisition
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Today’s Lecture
RESEARCH METHODS
Change over time Reading/interpreting
sources Specific comparisons
Scale “unit of analysis”
HISTORICAL CONTENT
Mutual development of colonialism and science
Compare the projects of Kolb, Sparrman, and Bleek
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Cape Colony: Territorial Expansion
Colonie du Cap de Bonne EspéranceCA: M 1/326, c. 1820
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Considerations of Power
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History of ScienceOle Worm (1588-1654), a doctor and professor of natural philosophy in Copenhagen, used his collection to teach students.
Museum Wormianum; seu, Historia rerum rariorum, tam naturalium, quam artificialium, tam domesticarum, quam exoticarum . . . Leiden: ex officina Elseviriorum, 1655Smithsonian Institution Library
Briefly,In Europe
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South African National Gallery
South African Museum
Slave Lodge
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Portuguese Exploration
Bartolomeu Dias, 1488
Vasco Da Gama, 1498
Portuguese navigators reach the Azores, 1427
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Maritime Science and Technology
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Colonial Exchanges
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Anders Sparrman (1748-1820)
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Cross-cultural collaborations Wilhelm Bleek (1827-1875) Lucy Lloyd (1834-1914) |xam ||kabbo