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Science as Prophecy: Measuring Past and Future Climates
"Climate" defies easy definition. It is a malleable concept, one that historians have increasingly recognized is mediated by diverse cultural practice
Deep Time Labscapes: Exploring natural analogue studies in geology and glaciology
For human society, the Anthropocene is characterized by enormous gains in control, but also by dramatic losses of control. "Deep Time Labscapes" explo
Christos Lynteris
Christos Lynteris is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. He has p...
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At the Edge of Land and Ocean: Arctic Indigenous Peoples and Fish Skin
This project addresses multiple issues related to contemporary sustainable fashion practices, with approaches inspired by Arctic fish skin heritage, s
Lost People on the Ming Frontiers: Captivity and Labor Acquisition in Early Modern China
My project contributes a distinct community of labor to “Ability and Authority”: one that was created through cross-border captivity. This project wil
The American Chimpanzee: Creating a Scientific Resource, 1915–1995
Prial’s project traces the history of chimpanzees as laboratory animals in the United States during the twentieth century, considering how parts of th
Ayako Sakurai
Ayako Sakurai obtained a PhD in history of science at the University of Cambridge in 2007. Her d...
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Popular Ming Field Allocation Maps: Between Origins and Afterlife
This research is concerned with field allocation (fenye 分野) maps found across the popular Ming encyclopedias, beginning from the early seventeenth cen
How Fenye Entered Local Gazetteers
More than ten thousand local gazetteers have been preserved in China and most of them include special chapters on fenye (field allocation). Fenye, whi
Fenye Knowledge in the General Maps in Late Ming Daily Encyclopedias
Field allocation, fenye 分野 is the traditional Chinese theory of the corresponding relationship between the celestial regions and the terrestrial realm