Japanese Ichthyological Objects and Knowledge Gained in Contact Zones by the Krusenstern Expedition (2016)
Evaluating the Russian Krusenstern Expedition and its contribution to ichthyology, this chapter demonstrates the significance of expeditions as the only available means to reach the “contact zones”, where Westerners, despite some challenges, could acquire natural history objects and local knowledge through exchange with the locals. By tracing the surviving fish specimens, archives and drawings, as well as collecting literary source materials in Europe and Japan, this chapter illustrates the whole process of the production of information about Japanese fish by the West in the early nineteenth century, when Japan had an isolationist policy. While participating German natural historians Langsdorff and Tilesius collected these objects, the French scholars Cuvier and Valenciennes practised their examinations to gain knowledge and described the new species from Japan.
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