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Creolised Science investigates the dynamic processes through which scientific knowledge was created, negotiated, and transformed across the eighteenth-century Indo-Pacific world. Rather than viewing science as a European export imposed on colonial territories, Dorit Brixius demonstrates how scientific practices were adapted, modified, and blended with local knowledge traditions to create hybrid forms of understanding.
The book traces how naturalists, merchants, and indigenous scholars engaged in collaborative knowledge production across vast oceanic distances. Through detailed case studies, Brixius reveals how the creolisation of science—the mixing of different knowledge systems—became central to how people understood the natural world in this period. This work challenges traditional narratives of science history by centering the Indo-Pacific region and highlighting the agency of non-European actors in shaping scientific development.
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