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SUMMARY:MSWG: Felix Lüttge
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>"The whalers' natural history and natural historians' whales"</strong></p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: 14.2px;">The paper uses the iconoclasm of Herman Melville’s </span></span><em>Moby-Dick</em><span style="text-indent: 14.2px;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: 14.2px;">as a point of departure to examine four types of images that deal with the problem of representing whales pictorially. I hope to show how the practical knowledge of whalers came to be inscribed in the work of natural historians, and that, although driven by allegedly ‘base’ (read: economic) motives, practical knowledge was essential to natural history. As will come apparent, Melville’s juxtaposition of theoretical and practical knowledge in literature runs parallel to a kind of scientific boundary work that lies at the core of the dichotomy of practical and theoretical knowledge.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: 14.2px;"><span><a href="http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/mswg/rsvp">Please RSVP by filling out this form for copy of pre-circulated paper</a>. Lunch will be served if you RSVP before Monday, Sep 14.</span></span></span></p>
LOCATION:Science Center 252
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