I have the pleasure to collaborate with @hannahod.bsky.social on Lars Montin's colonial travel to Sapmi in 1749. Our first article is now available in the History of Anthropology Review (part of section ed by Uchôa, Müller-Wille & Mercer, on Histories of Ethnoscience: histanthro.org/notes/traces... - ThreadSky

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lindaaburnett.bsky.social • 9 days ago

I have the pleasure to collaborate with @hannahod.bsky.social on Lars Montin's colonial travel to Sapmi in 1749. Our first article is now available in the History of Anthropology Review (part of section ed by Uchôa, Müller-Wille & Mercer, on Histories of Ethnoscience: https://histanthro.org/notes/traces-of-multivocal-botany/

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lindaaburnett.bsky.social•9 days ago

In the article we will discuss the role of the Sámi in determining the name and use of the plant Angelica archangelica, a central plant to the Sámi economy, as medicine and food.

lindaaburnett.bsky.social•9 days ago

Situating Montin’s account of this plant within the context of other contemporary writings on Sápmi from the 1730s and 40s and in relation to Montin’s desire to address audiences of learned society,

lindaaburnett.bsky.social•9 days ago

we explore both traces of multivocal botany in scholarly debates, and how the Sámi were used to lend credibility to Linnaean naturalists.

lindaaburnett.bsky.social•9 days ago

We also highlight how disconnects often occurred between Sámi nomenclature and their complex use of the plant when their knowledge was condensed in standardised botanical genres such as the flora.

lindaaburnett.bsky.social•9 days ago

#history #earlymodern #collecting #botany #histsci #envhist #colonialism #Linnaeus

lindaaburnett.bsky.social•9 days ago

Montin was a Linnaean student, following in the footsteps of Linnaeus as he traversed Sápmi in the summer of 1749. His account is currently transcribed by Eva Nyström (a true expert on Linnaeus and previously with the Linnaean Correspondence Project). We hope to publish it within the next year or so

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