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Accepted Paper:
'The Dolphin and the sextant': Traditional knowledge and modernity in Polynesian navigation
Luke Strongman
(TOPNZ)
Paper short abstract:
'The Dolphin and the sextant': Traditional knowledge and modernity in Polynesian navigation, explores the tensions between the varied navigational practices of Europeans and Polynesians in the Pacific.
Paper long abstract:
This paper provides an introductory account of the differing ontologies of Polynesian and European navigation techniques in the Pacific. The subject of the contrast between traditional knowledge and modernity is examined from the perspectives of humanistic and scientific navigational techniques used in the Pacific in the Eighteenth Century. Commentary is also made on the problems of knowledge accessibility and transmission and the difficulties of inter-cultural representation of navigational knowledge.
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Session 1