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Local Gazetteers
Local gazetteers (difangzhi 地方志) have been major primary sources for the study of China’s local history. About 8,000 titles of local gazetteers dating
Nature’s Place at the Colonial Museum
My project explores the unnaturally dominant place of natural history knowledge and practice in Australian settler-colonial science, politics, and his
Adrian Pirtea
Adrian C. Pirtea (PhD, 2017) is a historian of late antique and medieval Western Asia, specializ...
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Serafina Cuomo
Serafina Cuomo studied Philosophy at the Università Federico II in Naples and went on to complet...
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Science Social 02: "The Mask—Arrayed"
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MoreArchaeology of the Astral: Mingling of Astrological and Cosmological Ideas between Early Historic India and Roman Egypt
During his fellowship period at the MPIWG, Dr. Gupta is working on a project in conjunction with the "Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heave
Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative Project (CDLI)
The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), a cooperation with the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures of the University of Ca
Reclaiming Turtles All the Way Down (TAWD): Animal Cosmologies and Paths to Indigenous Sciences
The origin stories and cultural narratives of diverse peoples around the world are deeply entwined with principles that guide specific ways of knowing
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Our project collaborators historically examine the normalized imagery of the stacked turtles metaphor by inquiring into the roles of animal cosmologie
The Sociology of Occupations as a Way to Study Yuan-Ming Working Lives
Most people in premodern China spent most of their lives working. Scholarship on work in Yuan and Ming times has addressed large formations and change