Workshops > Knowledge about plants in the Americas in the Modern periodKNOWLEDGE ABOUT PLANTS IN THE AMERICAS IN THE MODERN TIMES Wednesday, June 14 from 9h00 to 11h00 MILC S410 Organization: Tassanee Alleau (CESR - Université de Tours) and Antoine Duranton (CRH - EHESS) Proposition The European colonization of the Americas is at the root of an unprecedented circulation of plants and botanical knowledge between the two continents. This knowledge, which was at stake in the ongoing relations of domination at the time, concerns both American plants that arrived in Europe (specifically medicinal plants), and European plants that were transplanted and adapted on a large scale in the Americas. This workshop aims at highlighting these processes of “knowledge and power” by looking for continuities among historiographies that often distinguish Iberian, French and British colonies. We wish to focus as much on the concrete techniques of circulation and transplantation of these plant species as on their representations, through a variety of botanical treaties. Finally, our objective is also to demonstrate that acclimatization attempts and botanical discoveries, in the colonies or in Europe, shed light on the transmission, exchanges and transfers of practical and theoretical knowledge about plants in the early modern era. Speakers • Cedric Cerruti (CRHIA - La Rochelle Université) and Maria Patricia Mariño (Universidad Nacional de Misiones) - Sources pour l’étude de la circulation des savoirs ethnobotaniques dans la culture matérielle du territoire jésuite guarani |
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