New World Drugs and the Archive of Practice
Translating Nicolás Monardes in Early Modern Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3924720 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Rankin (0000-0002-2128-8686, corresponding author), Alisha Rankin |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Pages | 67-88 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Osiris (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/719221 |
| OpenAlex | W4283360027 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 20 |
This essay examines European vernacular translations of the Spanish physician Nicolás Monardes’s treatises on drugs from the New World. I use the concept of an “archive of practice,” a set of original sources based in practices rather than texts, to examine how translators articulated or disarticulated indigenous Amerindian knowledge in Italian, English, French, Dutch, and German sources. Examining practice as a kind of archive allows us to consider sources captured only peripherally in written texts. This concept is especially important for Amerindian medical practices, which had no written source material. All Monardes sources, including his original publications, functioned as highly mediated translations of indigenous practices, and vernacular translations were even more distant from the primary sources. Nevertheless, I argue, the foundation of New World drugs on an archive of indigenous practice formed an important backdrop to vernacular translations. The empirical, non-European origins of the new knowledge gave translators significant freedom to adapt Monardes’s texts to their specific intellectual, political, professional, and commercial interests
Archaeology · Art · Foundation (evidence · German · Indigenous · Literature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Traditional knowledge · Vernacular · Classics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law
Natural particulars
Cultural Translation in Early Modern Europe
Matters of Exchange
Of the China Root
Exotic Drugs and English Medicine
Inventing the Indigenous
Translating Early Modern Science
Assembling the Tropics
Trading with the Enemy 1585–1604
Translations
Introduction
The Earliest Treatise on Tobacco
A history of global consumption, 1500-1800
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |