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Author Jacobs, Nancy J

Title Birders of Africa : History of a network / Nancy J. Jacobs
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (360 pages)
Series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
Yale agrarian studies.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-314) and index
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Subject Bird watchers -- Africa -- History
Ornithologists -- Africa -- History
Traditional ecological knowledge -- Africa
HISTORY -- Africa -- General.
Bird watchers
Ornithologists
Traditional ecological knowledge
Ornithologe
Ornithologie
Africa
Subsaharisches Afrika
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300220803
0300220804