Collecting humanity in the age of Enlightenment : The Hudson's Bay Company and Edinburgh University's natural history museum
The Enlightenment has long been defined as an age of expanding knowledge. Practices of collection, classification and display of objects, which intensified and spread along with the global extension of European empires and commercial networks, meant that Enlightenment intellectual aspiration became...
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ftuppsalauniv:oai:DiVA.org:uu-477172 2023-05-15T16:55:13+02:00 Collecting humanity in the age of Enlightenment : The Hudson's Bay Company and Edinburgh University's natural history museum Andersson Burnett, Linda 2022 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-477172 https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2022.2074502 eng eng Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria Global Intellectual History, 2380-1883, 2022 orcid:0000-0001-9288-0954 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-477172 doi:10.1080/23801883.2022.2074502 Scopus 2-s2.0-85131799922 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Natural history collecting Hudson's Bay Company circulation Enlightenment stadial theory History of Ideas Idé- och lärdomshistoria Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2022 ftuppsalauniv https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2022.2074502 2023-02-23T22:01:10Z The Enlightenment has long been defined as an age of expanding knowledge. Practices of collection, classification and display of objects, which intensified and spread along with the global extension of European empires and commercial networks, meant that Enlightenment intellectual aspiration became global in scope. This article focuses on the colonial collections of the Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh, the Rev. Dr John Walker, who was also the keeper of the university’s natural history museum. This article studies in particular the actors involved in the movement of a large collection of objects from the Hudson’s Bay Company. The collection was provided by an employee of the Company, Andrew Graham who also penned a manuscript about the artefacts and the people inhabiting Rupert’s Land. Graham’s collecting network included other traders, First Nation and Inuit actors and European-based naturalists. The article highlights the importance of conferring historical agency on a diverse cast of figures in the mobile formation and communication of colonial knowledge about humanity. It argues, however, that this movement of knowledge was not frictionless but was conditioned by uneven power relations and violence. Article in Journal/Newspaper inuit Uppsala University: Publications (DiVA) Global Intellectual History 1 22 |
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The Enlightenment has long been defined as an age of expanding knowledge. Practices of collection, classification and display of objects, which intensified and spread along with the global extension of European empires and commercial networks, meant that Enlightenment intellectual aspiration became global in scope. This article focuses on the colonial collections of the Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh, the Rev. Dr John Walker, who was also the keeper of the university’s natural history museum. This article studies in particular the actors involved in the movement of a large collection of objects from the Hudson’s Bay Company. The collection was provided by an employee of the Company, Andrew Graham who also penned a manuscript about the artefacts and the people inhabiting Rupert’s Land. Graham’s collecting network included other traders, First Nation and Inuit actors and European-based naturalists. The article highlights the importance of conferring historical agency on a diverse cast of figures in the mobile formation and communication of colonial knowledge about humanity. It argues, however, that this movement of knowledge was not frictionless but was conditioned by uneven power relations and violence. |
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