Out of the Ivy and into the Arctic: Imitation Coral Reconstruction in Cross-Cultural Contexts (2020)
Bilak, Donna (Author)
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Volume: 43
Issue: 3
Pages: 341-366
Publication date: 2020
Language: English
This essay discusses imitation coral reconstruction workshops based on a recipe from a sixteenth-century “book of secrets” that took place in three different educational contexts: Columbia University, Nunavut Arctic College, and Universität Hamburg. It reflects on the utility of reconstruction and material literacy as present-day history of science methodologies in which scholarly textual interpretation meets physical research. It also considers the nature of cultural heritage in shaping material practice through an Inuit cultural context, in which the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge is not rooted in textual traditions, but bodily embedded in oral histories, craft technology, and land stewardship. The essay also presents suggestions for new collaborative practices between humanists, artisans, and scientists that can be facilitated by reconstruction methodology.
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