Collection to Source: Cosmology and ethnobotanical artefacts of the Northwest Amazon.

我建议的基于实践的博士研究将集中在云杉收藏，在基尤的皇家植物园的亚马逊民族植物学文物的世纪收集。这些藏品一直是基尤一项长期研究计划的主题，汇集了来自英国和巴西的植物学家、文化历史学家和人类学家以及土著社区，以激发对亚马逊地区人类和植物的新研究和观点。这项研究是基于实践和跨学科的，我的研究将跨越艺术，民族植物学和民族志领域。我的目标是产生一个从收藏到来源的叙事，考虑对象如何成为活跃的代理人，并通过这个过程将创建一个新的艺术品和研究机构，与特定的，紧迫的学术议程相交，这些议程涉及我们如何理解和代表人类物质关系及其后殖民背景。在我的研究中，我将通过重新解释其历史意义，提高其作为材料和生态档案的潜力，并通过艺术过程与土著源社区建立新的联系来研究云杉收藏。通过与基尤的皇家植物园合作，我将与英国的人类学家、植物学家和历史学家（包括文化历史学家卢西亚娜·马丁斯、民族植物学家威廉·米利肯、民族植物学家兼策展人马克·奈斯特）以及巴西的植物学家和人类学家合作。实地考察将成为我研究的重要组成部分，因此我的研究将有两个地点：档案馆和亚马逊。在我的实地研究期间，我将在亚马逊西北部工作，在那里我将与来自“源”社区的土著人一起工作，大部分云杉收藏品都来自他们。

My proposed practice-based doctoral study will focus on the Spruce Collection, a 19th century collection of Amazonian ethnobotanical artefacts at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. This collection has been the subject of a long-term research initiative at Kew, bringing together botanists, cultural historians and anthropologists from the UK and Brazil alongside indigenous source communities in order to stimulate new research and perspectives on people and plants in the Amazon. This study is practice-based and interdisciplinary, and my research will cross the fields of art, ethnobotany and ethnography. I aim to generate a narrative running from collection to source that considers how objects can be active agents, and through this process will create a new body of artworks and research that intersects with particular, pressing academic agendas relating to how we understand and represent human-material relations and their postcolonial context. In my study I will examine the Spruce collection by re-interpreting its historical significance, raising its potential as a material as well as an ecological archive, and creating new connections with indigenous source communities through artistic processes. By working with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, I will be collaborating with anthropologists, botanists and historians in the UK (including cultural historian Luciana Martins, ethnobotanist William Milliken, ethnobotanist and curator Mark Nesbitt), as well as botanists and anthropologists in Brazil. Fieldwork will form a crucial component of my research and thus there will be two sites of my study: the archive and the Amazon. During my field studies I will be based in Northwest Amazon where I will work with indigenous people from the 'source' communities from whom most of the Spruce Collection was drawn.