People and Plants: an introduction

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Presentation
Creator (person)
Clark, Alison
Date published
March 10, 2023
Abstract
This workshop will be run in partnership with the Department of Cultures and Languages, Birkbeck, University of London and Museu Goeldi, Brazil. Discussions will be centred around the ecological value of ethnobotanical collections, including a focus on the interaction of western botanical nomenclature and traditional knowledge which forms the basis of an existing British Academy Knowledge Frontiers project. The Richard Spruce collection (1849-1864) will be the basis of a case study for how culture, plants and environment in the northwest Amazon have changed over the last 160 years.
Project(s)
People and Plants: reactivating ethnobotanical collections as material archives of Indigenous ecological knowledge
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Funder nameAwards
Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Publisher
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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