"Precolonial botanical exchanges and landscape transformations in the Indian Ocean World" lecture by Dr. Haripriya Rangan at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 28th November 2011
Time : 3:00 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Abstract : Much of the environmental history literature on plant transfers has centered on European agency and on the effects that these have had on both Old and New Worlds that were colonised by European powers over the past five centuries. The emphasis on European agency obscures, or diverts attention from botanical exchanges, i.e., plants transferred by human agency before European colonisation and colonialism between Africa and Asia. This paper focuses on food crop exchanges in the Indian Ocean World. It draws on recent interdisciplinary research in archaeobotany and palaeoclimatic studies to illustrate some of the earliest plant transfers that took place between eastern Africa, southern Asia, and mainland and Island Southeast Asia between 2500 BCE to 100 CE, and explore how these arrivals may have transformed host societies and environments.
Speaker : Dr. Haripriya Rangan is Associate Professor at the School of Geography and Environmental Science at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She has worked on issues related to forestry, regional development, and natural resource management in India, South Africa, and Australia. Her recent research (in collaboration with her departmental colleague Dr. Christian Kull) has focused on the colonial and postcolonial exchanges of acacia species around the Indian Ocean between India, South Africa, Madagascar and Australia. Her ongoing research project, in collaboration with Dr. Christian Kull and Dr. Daniel Murphy of the Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens, is funded by the Australian Research Council. It explores the history of precolonial transfers of baobab and Acacia farnesiana across the Indian Ocean into northern Australia.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library ( NMML ), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to The Seminar on ‘Precolonial botanical exchanges and landscape transformations in the Indian Ocean World’ by Dr. Haripriya Rangan, Monash University, Australia
Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to The Seminar on ‘Precolonial botanical exchanges and landscape transformations in the Indian Ocean World’ by Dr. Haripriya Rangan, Monash University, Australia
Abstract : Much of the environmental history literature on plant transfers has centered on European agency and on the effects that these have had on both Old and New Worlds that were colonised by European powers over the past five centuries. The emphasis on European agency obscures, or diverts attention from botanical exchanges, i.e., plants transferred by human agency before European colonisation and colonialism between Africa and Asia. This paper focuses on food crop exchanges in the Indian Ocean World. It draws on recent interdisciplinary research in archaeobotany and palaeoclimatic studies to illustrate some of the earliest plant transfers that took place between eastern Africa, southern Asia, and mainland and Island Southeast Asia between 2500 BCE to 100 CE, and explore how these arrivals may have transformed host societies and environments.
Speaker : Dr. Haripriya Rangan is Associate Professor at the School of Geography and Environmental Science at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She has worked on issues related to forestry, regional development, and natural resource management in India, South Africa, and Australia. Her recent research (in collaboration with her departmental colleague Dr. Christian Kull) has focused on the colonial and postcolonial exchanges of acacia species around the Indian Ocean between India, South Africa, Madagascar and Australia. Her ongoing research project, in collaboration with Dr. Christian Kull and Dr. Daniel Murphy of the Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens, is funded by the Australian Research Council. It explores the history of precolonial transfers of baobab and Acacia farnesiana across the Indian Ocean into northern Australia.
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"Precolonial botanical exchanges and landscape transformations in the Indian Ocean World" lecture by Dr. Haripriya Rangan at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 28th November 2011
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