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Direktor Jürgen Renn für die FAZ über die Idee eines neuen Max-Planck-Instituts für Geo-Anthropologie
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Chang-Xue Shu joined the digital humanities program of Chinese Local Gazetteers in Department II...
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Institute Welcomes Journalist in Residence Rachel Waldholz
Rachel Waldholz joins the MPIWG as Journalist in Residence
Nov 1, 2019Journalist-in-Residence Rachel Waldholz am Institut
Rachel Waldholz kommt an das MPIWG als Journalist-in-Residence
Nov 1, 2019Animals and Entangled Epistemologies in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Epistemological change in early modern Europe has long been told as an internalist story. Even with the Iberian and global “turns” in the history of s
How Does Knowledge Spread? Evidence from Fertilizer in Late Imperial China
Technological progress is almost unanimously seen as central to agricultural and more generally economic development. However, the processes interveni
Of Soils and Stars: Jesuit Perceptions of Chinese Agricultural Practices through Calendrical Construction
In Novus Atlas Sinensis, the Jesuit missionary Martino Martini (1614–1661) claimed that in China, which is “pleasant for the climate, the soil, the fe
The Human Scaffold: How Not to Design Your Way out of a Climate Crisis
Humanity has precipitated a planetary crisis of resource consumption—a crisis of stuff. So ingrained is our stuff-centric view, we can barely imagine
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