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SUMMARY:Transcultural botany: Japanese gardens in New Zealand\, 1890-1950 
 - Jasper Heinzen (Darwin College)
DTSTART:20061030T123000Z
DTEND:20061030T134500Z
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CONTACT:David Allan Feller
DESCRIPTION:In the last third of the nineteenth century Japanese culture g
 ripped the Western imagination and Japanese artworks\, philosophies and ar
 tifacts became all the rage.  A most interesting New Zealand import was t
 he 'Japanese' garden\, as the country became fascinated with reproductions
  of botanical designs that included many Japanese species previously unkno
 wn to Western science.  This week in the Natural History Cabinet\, Jasper
  Heinzen of the Cambridge University History Department examines these oft
 en whimsical reproductions and highlights the process of transculturation
  through New Zealand plant fancier's importation and adaptation of Japan
 ese botanical designs.  Were the final designs and plants utilized then J
 apanese\, or what New Zealand gardeners thought 'Japanese' plants and gard
 ens should be?  Our speaker addresses the translation of natural history 
 between two unique cultures.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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