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Lisa Onaga
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Lisa Onaga is a Senior Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), located in Berlin-Dahlem, and a historian of Japanese science and technology, working on sericulture and silk since the 1800s. At the DIJ, she will work on her new research on the history of the transformation and persistence of the silk-weaving culture on the island of Amami Ōshima. Specifically, she will be conducting fieldwork and archival research for her historical case study in relation to the post-1970s cataloguing of natural and cultural heritage sites.