Fischer-Tiné, Harald (Author)
Diaphanes
Physical Details: 100 pp.; ill.
Language: German
Harald Fischer-tine shows in his essay the boundaries of in the history of science long popular Euro-centric diffusion models and demonstrates that scientific knowledge had no topographic localizable center - not even in the seemingly so clearly marked by the dominance of the West> colonial <19th century. Specifically, the practical potential of new historical perspectives of Global History and New Imperial History made fruitful for enriching the knowledge history is an example from the history of medicine: the genesis of Western (colonial) medicine in British India and the concurrent transformation of local South Asian healing traditions. As Fischer Tiné argues an embossed bond and translations> Pidgin-knowledge 'that eludes a unique geographical, cultural or ethnic localization arose in both cases.
...MoreReview Caitríona Leahy (March 2017) Review of "Pidgin-Knowledge: Wissen und Kolonialismus". Transfers (pp. 161-163).
Review Heé, Nadin (2015) Review of "Pidgin-Knowledge: Wissen und Kolonialismus". Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 92-93).
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