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Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe

Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe

Cooper, Alix
Alix, Cooper

Paperback

Medical ReferenceMedieval & Renaissance HistorySports General

ISBN10: 0521124018
ISBN13: 9780521124010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 17 2009
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the wake of expanding commercial voyages, many people in early modern Europe became curious about the plants and minerals around them and began to compile catalogs of them. Drawing on cultural, social and environmental history, as well as the histories of science and medicine, this book argues that, amidst a growing reaction against exotic imports -- whether medieval spices like cinnamon or new American arrivals like chocolate and tobacco -- learned physicians began to urge their readers to discover their own indigenous natural worlds. In response, compilers of local inventories created numerous ways of itemizing nature, from local floras and regional mineralogies to efforts to write the natural histories of entire territories. Tracing the fate of such efforts, the book provides new insight into the historical trajectory of such key concepts as indigeneity and local knowledge.

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