Dear all,
apologies for cross-posting
Michèle
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Subject: Re: Annual Ethnobotany Lecture, Kew, 11 October 2011
From: "Michele M Wollstonecroft" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, September 27, 2011 1:22 pm
To: "The archaeobotany mailing list" <[log in to unmask]>
"Mark Nesbitt" <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi Mark,
brilliant - I'll be coming with one or two archaeobotany PhD students.
Looking forward to seeing you,
Michèle
> Not strictly archaeobotany - but certainly relevant, especially to the
> long term history of subsistence and environment
> Mark
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> Annual Distinguished Ethnobotanist Lecture 2011
> Ethnobotany of the Home and Hearth by Will McClatchey (Botanical Research
> Institute of Texas)
>
> Jodrell Lecture Theatre, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
> 5pm, Tuesday 11 October 2011
>
> Admission free. No booking required. Entry via Jodrell Gate, Kew Road, TW9
> 3DS. Discussion continues afterwards at The Botanist on Kew Green. Jodrell
> Map: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=518990&Y=177293&A=Y&Z=110
>
> Queries: Mark Nesbitt, [log in to unmask]
>
> Will McClatchey is well-known for his role in developing modern
> ethnobotanical techniques and research questions, and as an excellent
> teacher and public speaker. We look forward to seeing you at what promises
> to be a memorable evening. As ever, we will move to The Botanist
> afterwards, an opportunity to meet the speaker, this year's new
> Ethnobotany MSc students from Kent, and many colleagues with an interest
> in ethnobotany.
>
> Summary
> All of our ancestors originated in East Africa and spread from there to a
> series of new environments. In each new location they must have applied a
> process of learning about plants including ones that would be new to them.
> Today some communities are recognized as “indigenous” and having deeper
> knowledge of environments than communities that are non-indigenous or new
> to a place. A basic question is: How long does it take a community to
> become “indigenous” to an environment or to develop strong patterns of
> interaction with a flora? Experiments in Thailand, Hawai`i and Texas will
> be presented to begin to address this question.
>
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Michèle
Dr. Michèle Wollstonecroft
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
UCL Institute of Archaeology
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