TY  - GEN
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - Birders of Africa :history of a network /
AU  - Jacobs, Nancy Joy.
CN  - ProQuest Ebook Central
CN  - QL677.5
ID  - 859145
KW  - Bird watchers
KW  - Ornithologists
KW  - Traditional ecological knowledge
KW  - Ornithology
KW  - Ethnozoology
KW  - Taxidermists
KW  - Ethnoscience
KW  - Birds
KW  - Birds
SN  - 9780300220803
SN  - 0300220804
TI  - Birders of Africa :history of a network /
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