Friday 10 December 2021, 2pm-4pm (zoom + OdG358): Michael Jonik (University of Sussex) “A Dictionary of the Indian Languages”: Thoreau's Ecopoetic Ethnobotany”- respondent: Antoine Traisnel (U. of Michigan)- POSTPONED- March 18th, 2022
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: At the end of his Maine Woods, Thoreau adds a brief “Appendix” containing plant and animal names (including Latin nomenclature and common English names), advice for those who would “outfit” an excursion upriver in Maine, and a “List of Indian Words.” The latter list relates primarily to place names or to geographical or topographical features of the Penobscot valley, and signals Thoreau’s diverse yet intense interests in cartography and toponymy, geology and hydrodynamics, botany an...