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Birders of Africa : history of a network

Title
  1. Birders of Africa : history of a network / Nancy J. Jacobs.
Published by
  1. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
Author
  1. Jacobs, Nancy Joy

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Description
  1. xiii, 325 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
Summary
  1. In this unique and unprecedented study of birding in Africa, historian Nancy Jacobs reconstructs the collaborations between well-known ornithologists and the largely forgotten guides, hunters, and taxidermists who assisted them. Drawing on ethnography, scientific publications, private archives, and interviews, Jacobs asks: How did white ornithologists both depend on and operate distinctively from African birders? What investment did African birders have in collaborating with ornithologists? By distilling the interactions between European science and African vernacular knowledge, this stunningly illustrated work offers a fascinating examination of the colonial and postcolonial politics of expertise about nature.
Series statement
  1. Yale Agrarian Studies Series
Uniform title
  1. Yale agrarian studies.
Subject
  1. Bird watchers
  2. Ornithologists
  3. Traditional ecological knowledge
  4. Taxidermists > Africa > History
  5. Ornithology > Africa > History
  6. Birds > Africa > Nomenclature (Popular)
  7. History
  8. Bird watchers > Africa > History
  9. Ethnozoology > Africa
  10. Ethnoscience > Africa
  11. Traditional ecological knowledge > Africa
  12. Birds > Nomenclature (Popular)
  13. Ornithologists > Africa > History
  14. Africa
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. Part I. Vernacular birding and ornithology in Africa. African vernacular birding traditions ; Early birding contact, 1500-1700 ; Ornithology comes to Southern Africa, 1700-1900 ; Authority in vernacular traditions and ornithology -- Part II. Lives of birders. The boundaries of birding ; The honor of collecting ; The respectability of museum work ; Birding revolutions.
Call number
  1. Sc E 16-662
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-314) and index.
Author
  1. Jacobs, Nancy Joy, author.
Title
  1. Birders of Africa : history of a network / Nancy J. Jacobs.
Publisher
  1. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
Type of content
  1. text
  2. still image
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Series
  1. Yale Agrarian Studies Series
  2. Yale agrarian studies.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-314) and index.
ISBN
  1. 9780300209617
  2. 0300209614
Research call number
  1. Sc E 16-662
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