Heritage Tairāwhiti Talk
Fri, 24 Nov
|The Plunket Building
How knowledge of indigenous people was inserted into standardised systems of classifying and ordering from the time of Cook’s voyages through to the 1830s and other topics.
Time & Location
24 Nov 2023, 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
The Plunket Building, 173 Palmerston Road, Gisborne 4010, New Zealand
About the event
Heritage Tairāwhiti are hosting a talk by Dr Edwin Rose and Professor Staffan Müller-Wille, of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University. The topics include
how knowledge of indigenous people was inserted into standardised systems of classifying and ordering from the time of Cook’s voyages through to the 1830s.
Natural History in the Age of Revolutions, 1776–1848
changing relationships between Western knowledge systems and Indigenous knowledge systems
The talk is FREE and promises to be a really interesting!
The end time is approximate.