Out of the Ivy and into the Arctic: Imitation Coral Reconstruction in Cross‐Cultural Contexts
Abstract This essay discusses imitation coral reconstruction workshops based on a recipe from a sixteenth‐century “book of secrets” that took place in three different educational contexts: Columbia University, Nunavut Arctic College, and Universität Hamburg. It reflects on the utility of reconstruct...
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crwiley:10.1002/bewi.202000010 2024-09-15T18:15:03+00:00 Out of the Ivy and into the Arctic: Imitation Coral Reconstruction in Cross‐Cultural Contexts Bilak, Donna 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bewi.202000010 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/bewi.202000010 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/bewi.202000010 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte volume 43, issue 3, page 341-366 ISSN 0170-6233 1522-2365 journal-article 2020 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/bewi.202000010 2024-08-15T04:18:56Z Abstract This essay discusses imitation coral reconstruction workshops based on a recipe from a sixteenth‐century “book of secrets” that took place in three different educational contexts: Columbia University, Nunavut Arctic College, and Universität Hamburg. It reflects on the utility of reconstruction and material literacy as present‐day history of science methodologies in which scholarly textual interpretation meets physical research. It also considers the nature of cultural heritage in shaping material practice through an Inuit cultural context, in which the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge is not rooted in textual traditions, but bodily embedded in oral histories, craft technology, and land stewardship. The essay also presents suggestions for new collaborative practices between humanists, artisans, and scientists that can be facilitated by reconstruction methodology. Article in Journal/Newspaper inuit Nunavut Wiley Online Library Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 43 3 341 366 |
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Abstract This essay discusses imitation coral reconstruction workshops based on a recipe from a sixteenth‐century “book of secrets” that took place in three different educational contexts: Columbia University, Nunavut Arctic College, and Universität Hamburg. It reflects on the utility of reconstruction and material literacy as present‐day history of science methodologies in which scholarly textual interpretation meets physical research. It also considers the nature of cultural heritage in shaping material practice through an Inuit cultural context, in which the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge is not rooted in textual traditions, but bodily embedded in oral histories, craft technology, and land stewardship. The essay also presents suggestions for new collaborative practices between humanists, artisans, and scientists that can be facilitated by reconstruction methodology. |
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