Name: Latin American Indigenous Knowledge, Exoticism and Pharmacy in European Cultural Repertoires
Start: 2024-05-17T15:30:00+02:00
Location: CEDLA: Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation

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Latin American Indigenous Knowledge, Exoticism and Pharmacy in European Cultural Repertoires
CEDLA LECTURE
17 MAY 2024
Latin American Indigenous Knowledge, Exoticism and Pharmacy in European Cultural Repertoires
CEDLA LECTURE
17 MAY 2024
SPEAKER: Fernando González Rodríguez, KU Leuven
DISCUSSANT: Tinde van Andel, Leiden University
DATE: 17 May
TIME: 15.30-17.00, followed by drinks and snacks
ACTIVITY: CEDLA LECTURE
VENUE: CEDLA Room 2.02 (2nd floor)
Ever since the encounter between the so-called Old and New Worlds, there has been an exchange of pharmacological knowledge across the Atlantic. Both materially and figuratively, the application of natural precursors native to the Americas have become part of the Western therapeutic landscape. ‘Exotic’ curative plants from far away places retain their place as a reference in contemporary cultural repertoires, but as I show, in the process, important contributions of medicinal Indigenous expertise to modern science have been overlooked. Focusing on the linguistic and visual aspect of pharmacological epistemic transfers across time, I ask: Whose nature and knowledge is it?