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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
Translation Terroirs: East Asia Between Autochthonous and Western Cartographic Languages
A map is a combination of graphic and text, and, by definition speaks two languages—the language of its toponyms and the language of its system cartog
LoGaRT: Local Gazetteers Research Tools
Local gazetteers (difangzhi 地方志) are major primary sources for the study of China’s local history. An estimated 8,000 titles of local gazetteers
Sarah Schneewind
Sarah Schneewind graduated from Cornell in 1986, Yale with an MA in 1988, and Columbia with a Ph...
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Michal Biran
Michal Biran (PhD HUJI 2000) is the Max and Sophie Mydans Foundation Professor in the Humanities...
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The Prints and Printing Culture of the Old Uyghurs on the Northern Silk Road
This research project systematically investigates over 1500 thirteenth- to fourteenth-century Old Uyghur prints and closely compares them in terms of
Agricultural Knowledge in Persian, 1200–1600
How, in what fields, and by whose authority, do premodern New Persian agricultural texts claim to transmit knowledge? Do the extant texts present evid
“Tu (圖)” in Local Gazetteers
In classical Chinese, “Tu (圖)” can mean either images, illustrations, or drawings. This working group intends to look at visual representations in Chi