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Birders of Africa

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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.

כותר Birders of Africa : history of a network / Nancy J. Jacobs.
מוציא לאור New Haven : Yale University Press
שנה 2016
הערות Published with assistance from the Mary Cady Tew Memorial Fund.
Previously issued in print: 2016.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
הערת תוכן ותקציר 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.
סדרה Agrarian Studies Series
היקף החומר 1 online resource : illustrations.
שפה אנגלית
שנת זכויות יוצרים ©2016
מספר מערכת 997010721277605171
תצוגת MARC

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