Interview with Dr Sebestian Kroupa: On Bezoars and Other Healing Stones in Manila – Making Knowledge Across Indo-Pacific Worlds, c.1700

For the Pacific Circle’s opening lecture of 2023 this past January, Dr Sebestian Kroupa presented his research on the Indo-Pacific networks that underpinned the global circulation of bezoars and other healing stones in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This paper forms part of his current book project, titled Plants on the Move: The Making of […]

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