Doctoral Dissertation Research: "Networked Knowledge: Socially Embedded Science in Early Modern Siam"

博士论文研究：“网络知识：现代早期暹罗的社会嵌入科学”

• 批准号: 1127747
• 负责人: Tamara Loos
• 金额: $ 1.45万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1127747&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Networked; Knowledge

Summary and significanceThis dissertation is a study of the social relations that authorized knowledge in nineteenth century Siam (Thailand), which played host to the interaction of two cosmopolitan knowledge regimes: western science and indigenous knowledge. Previous studies of 'the arrival of western science' in Siam have ignored the role of religious thought in both knowledge regimes, and the vitality of indigenous knowledge. This historical study will focus on three seminal figures and their interactions with western forms of scientific knowledge. It will situate these actors within the western and Buddhist knowledge networks that coincided in early modern Siam. The study will then trace the social life of western scientific knowledge in Siamese institutions, implying a radical redefinition of the notion of secularization in Siamese history.Technical descriptionThe proposer will undertake five months of archival research in Bangkok, Thailand in order to forge connections between global narratives of the spread of modern science and the socially and culturally contingent processes of its localization. Archival sources to be explored include the personal library holdings of elite Siamese figures, Siamese and Pali language treatises pertaining to science and medicine, and records of Buddhist monastic correspondence and exchange across South and Southeast Asia.By integrating theoretical perspectives from science studies with the historical and cultural purview of area studies scholarship, this research project will bring under-utilized Southeast Asian historical materials to the attention of science studies scholars and likewise expose area studies scholars to the central concerns of science studies scholarship. It will also make important contributions to post-colonial studies scholarship on topics ranging from secularization to issues of local knowledge, including proprietary knowledge in indigenous medical traditions

本论文主要研究世纪泰国暹罗地区知识授权的社会关系，它是两种世界性知识体系--西方科学和本土知识相互作用的主要场所。以往关于“西方科学在暹罗的到来”的研究忽视了宗教思想在知识体系中的作用，以及本土知识的活力。这一历史研究将集中在三个开创性的数字和他们与西方形式的科学知识的相互作用。它将这些演员在西方和佛教知识网络，在现代早期暹罗重合。这项研究将追溯西方科学知识在暹罗机构的社会生活，意味着一个彻底的重新定义的概念，在暹罗的历史世俗化。技术provisionThe提议者将进行为期五个月的档案研究在曼谷，泰国，以建立现代科学的传播和社会和文化的全球叙事其本地化的偶然过程之间的联系。将探索的档案资源包括暹罗精英人物的个人图书馆馆藏、与科学和医学有关的暹罗语和帕利语论文、以及南亚和东南亚佛教寺院通信和交流的记录。通过将科学研究的理论观点与区域研究奖学金的历史和文化范围相结合，这个研究项目将使未充分利用的东南亚历史资料引起科学研究学者的注意，并同样使地区研究学者了解科学研究学术的核心问题。它还将对后殖民研究学术作出重要贡献，研究的主题从世俗化到地方知识问题，包括土著医学传统中的专有知识