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BIRDERS OF AFRICA
HISTORY OF A NETWORK
by Nancy J. Jacobs
2016 1st edition. Octavo hardback, xvi + 325 pages. Colour and b/w photographs, b/w illustrations, extensive bibliography.
Fine, new unread hardback in dust-wrapper.
Publisher's price £45.00 - Our price to your door £23.45
48% discount! You save £21.55!
An interesting account of birding in Africa, specifically investigating the relationship between African and European workers in the field.
"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 worked with 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 .. .. work offers a fascinating examination of the colonial and postcolonial politics of expertise about nature."
Contents include: Part 1 - 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 2 - Lives of Birders: The boundaries of birding; The honor of collecting; The respectability of museum work; Birding revolutions.
This books contains much of interest, especially once the keen reader begins to blip over the anachronisms in the text, and the author's Post-Modernist pretention as she 'engages' with 'knowledge production' and 'actor-network theory'.
ISBN : 9780300209617
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