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050 0 0 _aQL677.5
_bJAC 2016
100 1 _aJacobs, Nancy Joy,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aBirders of Africa :
_bhistory of a network /
_cNancy J. Jacobs.
264 1 _aNew Haven :
_bYale University Press,
_c[2016]
300 _axiii, 325 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations (some color) ;
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
336 _astill image
_bsti
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 285-314) and index.
505 0 _aPart 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.
520 8 _aIn 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.
650 0 _aBird watchers
_xHistory.
650 0 _aOrnithologists
_xHistory.
650 0 _aTaxidermists
_xHistory.
650 0 _aTraditional ecological knowledge
650 0 _aOrnithology
_xHistory.
650 0 _aEthnozoology
650 0 _aBirds
650 0 _aBirds
_xNomenclature (Popular)
650 0 _aBirds
650 0 _aEthnoscience
650 7 _aBird watchers.
650 7 _aBirds.
650 7 _aEthnoscience.
650 7 _aEthnozoology.
650 7 _aOrnithologists.
650 7 _aOrnithology.
650 7 _aTaxidermists.
650 7 _aTraditional ecological knowledge.
650 7 _aOrnithologe.
650 7 _aOrnithologie.
651 7 _aAfrica.
651 7 _aSubsaharisches Afrika.
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