Event time:
Thursday, December 4, 2014 - 4:00pm
Location:
Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC), LC 319
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.