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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2018] Local Knowledge as a Non-Residual Category in Early Modern Latin America, Europe, Africa, and the Ottoman Empire
DESCRIPTION:In the last decade, the term ‘local knowledge’ has gained a certain importance as an analytical concept, due to the rise of the history of knowledge and growing historiographical research into the micro-analysis of globalizing processes. However, it is not always clear in what sense this catchy term is used. In most contexts, the label is used for every kind of indigenous knowledge within non-western civilizations, in others, for the “knowledge of the particular circumstances of time and place” (Friedrich Hayek), or the very limited spread of certain information. In these contexts, ‘local knowledge’ is reduced to a merely residual category of all the knowable content which seems to be historically and socially relevant but which is not that easy to grasp. Local knowledge is used as non-western, non-scientific, or non-universal knowledge, but without a very clear analytical value of its own. This panel explores the analytical power of the term ‘local knowledge,’ based on recent results of the historiography of knowledge, when ‘knowledge’ is used as a category to counter-balance evolutionist epistemologies, essentialisms, and unilateral ideas of the accumulation of knowledge. To avoid interference with ‘colonial knowledge,’ we chose colonial and non-colonial situations in the early modern world which are geographically widespread, over four continents. Thus, the term can be developed as highly necessary, effective, and practical mode to cope with adversity and hardship. It demonstrates adaptations of foreign knowledge to meet local needs and is embedded in rituals, rumors, visual sources, and materiality.
Der Beitrag Local Knowledge as a Non-Residual Category in Early Modern Latin America, Europe, Africa, and the Ottoman Empire erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2018.
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