18th/19th Century Colloquium: Ruth Mack “Abstracting the South Seas: Joseph Banks and Early Ethnography”

Event time: 
Thursday, December 4, 2014 - 4:00pm
Location: 
Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC), LC 319 See map
63 High St.
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

“Abstracting the South Seas: Joseph Banks and Early Ethnography”

Ruth Mack is Associate Professor of English at SUNY Buffalo and the author of _Literary Historicity: Literature and Historical Experience in Eighteenth-Century Britain_. She is currently at work on a history of the ideas of theory and practice in cultural anthropology.

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