Ways of Knowing a Former Insect
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3243629 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leah Lui-Chivizhe (0000-0002-5945-6403, UNSW Sydney), Jude Philp (0000-0002-1122-1808, The University of Sydney) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 115 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 147-151 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Isis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/728888 |
| OpenAlex | W4392179849 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
What are the benefits of liberating museum objects from their colonial frames of reference to reincorporate them into Indigenous ways of knowing? As curators working together with Torres Strait Islanders to interpret museum objects, the authors focus on collected items relating to centipedes acquired during the experimental era of scientific investigation by a zoologist and an ethnographer in eastern Zenadth Kes, the Torres Strait waters between northern Australia and Papua New Guinea. In the scientific sphere, the centipede Scolopendra existed for a time as an insect before "becoming" a myriapod. In Zenadth Kes it has always existed as isi
Biology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Insect · Ecology · Historical and Literary Studies · Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy · Philosophy · Plant and animal studies
| Highly cited | No |
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