Collection to Source: Cosmology and ethnobotanical artefacts of the Northwest Amazon.

收藏来源：亚马逊西北部的宇宙学和民族植物学文物。

• 批准号: 2292915
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Brighton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2292915
• 关键词: Collection; Source; Cosmology; ethnobotanical; artefacts

My proposed practice-based doctoral study will focus on the Spruce Collection, a 19th century collection of Amazonian ethnobotanical artefacts at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. This collection has been the subject of a long-term research initiative at Kew, bringing together botanists, cultural historians and anthropologists from the UK and Brazil alongside indigenous source communities in order to stimulate new research and perspectives on people and plants in the Amazon. This study is practice-based and interdisciplinary, and my research will cross the fields of art, ethnobotany and ethnography. I aim to generate a narrative running from collection to source that considers how objects can be active agents, and through this process will create a new body of artworks and research that intersects with particular, pressing academic agendas relating to how we understand and represent human-material relations and their postcolonial context. In my study I will examine the Spruce collection by re-interpreting its historical significance, raising its potential as a material as well as an ecological archive, and creating new connections with indigenous source communities through artistic processes. By working with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, I will be collaborating with anthropologists, botanists and historians in the UK (including cultural historian Luciana Martins, ethnobotanist William Milliken, ethnobotanist and curator Mark Nesbitt), as well as botanists and anthropologists in Brazil. Fieldwork will form a crucial component of my research and thus there will be two sites of my study: the archive and the Amazon. During my field studies I will be based in Northwest Amazon where I will work with indigenous people from the 'source' communities from whom most of the Spruce Collection was drawn.

我提出的基于实践的博士研究将集中于云杉系列，这是19世纪的亚马逊民族植物学人工制品，在凯夫的皇家植物园。该系列已成为KEW长期研究计划的主题，将来自英国和巴西的植物学家，文化史学家和人类学家与土著原始社区一起汇总在一起，以刺激亚马逊中亚马逊人的人们和植物的新研究和观点。这项研究是基于实践的和跨学科的，我的研究将跨越艺术，民族植物学和民族志的领域。我的目的是生成一个从集合到来源的叙事，以考虑对象如何成为活跃的代理，并且通过此过程，将创建一系列新的艺术品和研究，这些艺术品和研究与我们如何理解和代表人性关系及其后殖民环境相关的学术议程。在我的研究中，我将通过重新解释其历史意义，提高其作为材料和生态档案的潜力，并通过艺术过程与土著源社区建立新的联系，来检查云杉的收集。通过与皇家植物园（Kew）合作，我将与英国的人类学家，植物学家和历史学家合作（包括文化历史学家Luciana Martins，Ethnobotanist William Milliken，Ethnnobotanist和Curator Mark Nesbitt），以及Brazil的Ass Botanists and Bootanists和Broazolopologist。现场工作将构成我的研究的关键组成部分，因此我的研究将有两个站点：档案和亚马逊。在我的实地研究中，我将总部位于西北亚马逊，在那里我将与来自“来源”社区的土著人民合作，从中吸引了大多数云杉收藏。