{"title":":Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment","authors":"K. Kumbhar","doi":"10.1086/725926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725926","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14667,"journal":{"name":"Isis","volume":"254 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75972185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monstrosity in Medical Science: Race-Making and Teratology in the Nineteenth-Century United States","authors":"M. Rich","doi":"10.1086/726315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726315","url":null,"abstract":"This essay analyzes the medical study of “monstrous birth” as a site of race-making in the nineteenth-century United States. It argues that the medical theorization of monstrosity was structured by multiple logics of race, which both shaped and emerged from medical authorities’ efforts to classify and interpret anomalous newborn bodies. Materialized at the intersection of these logics, the biological monster theorized a racial order that was hierarchical, temporalized, and vulnerable to the dangers of women’s reproduction. In this context, monstrosity became a way to advance claims about the nature of racial hierarchy, articulate the threat and mechanism of racial degeneration, and negotiate the contradictions of shifting racial imaginaries across the nineteenth century. Exploring the medical engagement with monstrosity thus sheds light on entanglements of medical science and race-making in U.S. history, showing how practitioners produced and elaborated unstable concepts of scientific race, and revealing how race was linked to reproduction in the emergence of modern biomedical discourse.","PeriodicalId":14667,"journal":{"name":"Isis","volume":"1 1","pages":"513 - 536"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86508944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An (Un)Natural History: Tracing the Magical Rhinoceros Horn in Egypt","authors":"T. M. Moore","doi":"10.1086/726113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726113","url":null,"abstract":"Can emancipatory, decolonial histories of science be extracted from objects collected from—or made visible to history by—the archives of colonialism? To answer this question, this essay presents the case study of a rhinoceros horn amulet (qarn al-khartit), an ethnographic object collected by the British anthropologist Winifred Blackman during her fieldwork in Egypt in the late 1920s. Markedly decentering the traditional colonial history of how the rhinoceros horn was collected and displayed as an object in European museums, the essay follows the trail of the rhinoceros horn back to the site of its collection in Egypt to reveal a strikingly different story: one of non-Western histories of science/magic/medicine, gender, race, and enslavement, all set against the backdrop of Egypt’s imperial pursuits in East Africa. The essay proposes the method of decolonial materialism to “read” objects, like the rhinoceros horn, as archives of scientific knowledge otherwise.","PeriodicalId":14667,"journal":{"name":"Isis","volume":"15 1","pages":"469 - 489"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81965653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":Population Politics in the Tropics: Demography, Health, and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola","authors":"Jorge Varanda","doi":"10.1086/725919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725919","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14667,"journal":{"name":"Isis","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86102612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mining Mercury for the Common Good: Debating the Public Good and Wealth in Huancavelica","authors":"R. Raphael","doi":"10.1086/726114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726114","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution uses the career and writings of Juan Solórzano Pereira (1575–1655) to probe the relationship between mercury, governance, and the obligations of individuals to the early modern Iberian state. It focuses specifically on two terms often employed in the context of practical governance—“bien público” (public good) and “hacienda” (treasury)—by placing Solórzano Pereira’s 1647 Politica Indiana and administrative documents generated during his tenure at the mercury mine of Huancavelica (modern Peru) in dialogue. Read in tandem, these texts reveal that Solórzano Pereira articulated the relationship between mercury, the bien público, and the hacienda through comparisons between mining and agriculture, a conception of nature as an agential force, and period understandings of the “common.” While historians of practical governance often dismiss appeals to the bien público and the hacienda as hollow rhetoric, this essay reveals that the terms were important for period actors in conceptualizing the distribution of labor and materials.","PeriodicalId":14667,"journal":{"name":"Isis","volume":"2 1","pages":"638 - 645"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82869311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“To Embrace and Protect”: Managing Wind, Water, and Trees in the Ryukyu Kingdom","authors":"B. Chen","doi":"10.1086/726185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726185","url":null,"abstract":"The last centuries of the Ryukyu Kingdom (?–1879; modern-day Okinawa, Japan) were a crucial era in the political ecology of the islands, during which the court instituted new bureaucratic offices to manage agricultural land, forests, and craft production. This essay examines the knowledge practices that underpinned the land redistribution and afforestation projects of the eighteenth century: Confucian statecraft and fengshui (lit. “wind” “water”), or Chinese geomancy. Contrary to its modern depiction as superstition or pseudo-science, fengshui constituted a systematic body of knowledge about the natural world, which shaped landscape and resource management. Forest recovery efforts were aimed at increasing the general productivity of the islands, but in a manner that was consistent with the fengshui view of human–environment relations, as well as the ideals of Confucian statecraft. Focusing on forest management, this essay explores how eighteenth-century Ryukyu bureaucrats adapted fengshui techniques to managing the land and to governing the kingdom.","PeriodicalId":14667,"journal":{"name":"Isis","volume":"9 1","pages":"611 - 618"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84278688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":Painting with Fire: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object","authors":"N. Marshall","doi":"10.1086/726129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726129","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14667,"journal":{"name":"Isis","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89551372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":The Science of Proof: Forensic Medicine in Modern France","authors":"M. Sharafi","doi":"10.1086/726153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726153","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14667,"journal":{"name":"Isis","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90979811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":The Poetry of John Tyndall","authors":"R. Barton","doi":"10.1086/726152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726152","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14667,"journal":{"name":"Isis","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86147897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}