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SUMMARY: Empire\, indigenous knowledge and the practice of recording and c
 lassifying the plants of New Zealand\, 1769–1838 - Edwin Rose (Departmen
 t of History and Philosophy of Science)
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CONTACT:Tom Banbury
DESCRIPTION:Understanding the natural history of the islands of the Pacifi
 c became a central feature of European voyages of exploration from the 176
 0s. Concentrating on successive botanical explorations of Aotearoa New Zea
 land from the activities of Joseph Banks\, Daniel Solander and their team 
 of field assistants in 1769 through to Allan Cunningham\, the King's Botan
 ist of New South Wales\, who visited Aotearoa New Zealand in 1826 and 1838
 \, this talk explores the practices of integrating Māori knowledge when c
 ataloguing and classifying species. This includes details of the physical 
 characters of plants\, their use in contemporary society and information o
 n broader groupings of species that are systematically integrated into a d
 iverse collection of manuscripts ranging from field notebooks to paper sli
 ps\, interleaved books\, polished manuscripts and publications. As such\, 
 this talk analyses the practices through which Māori knowledge on the pla
 nts of Aotearoa New Zealand was integrated into the advanced assemblages o
 f paper technologies developed to keep these records in the field. It also
  shows how other information relating to the geographical distribution of 
 species\, the use of particular plants by the Māori and their approaches 
 to classifying species became integrated with European classification syst
 ems\, contributing to the breakdown of the Linnaean system and the emergen
 ce of so-called 'natural systems' of classification by the early nineteent
 h century.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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