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SUMMARY:Health knowledge and its gatekeepers: exchanges of knowledge betwe
 en Tsimshian and Euro-Canadian missionaries in nineteenth-century British 
 Columbia - Phoebe McDonnell (King's College London)
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CONTACT:Tom Banbury
DESCRIPTION:In nineteenth-century British Columbia\, the process of coloni
 zation and the attempted elimination of traditional practices impacted gre
 atly on how individuals understood health and medicine. Using the diaries 
 of a Tsimshian man and irregular Indigenous missionary called Arthur Welli
 ngton Clah\, we can see how health knowledge and disease events impacted t
 he ways Indigenous individuals viewed and interacted with Euro-Canadian mi
 ssionaries. As Clah navigated the rapidly changing world around him\, how 
 he understood health changed in interesting ways. Using the seventy-two vo
 lumes of his diary\, supplemented by the writings of Euro-Canadian mission
 aries in the region\, we can trace the change over time of the ways in whi
 ch all of these missionaries\, Indigenous and Euro-Canadian alike\, saw th
 e world around them. This helps us to better understand the importance of 
 the medical dimension of proselytization and its significance to the wider
  colonial project.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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