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Product Identifiers

PublisherYale University Press

ISBN-100300209614

ISBN-139780300209617

eBay Product ID (ePID)219204892

Product Key Features

Number of Pages352 Pages

Publication NameBirders of Africa : History of a Network

LanguageEnglish

SubjectEnvironmentalists & Naturalists, Regional, Life Sciences / Zoology / Ornithology, History, Animals / Birds

Publication Year2016

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaNature, Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorNancy J. Jacobs

SeriesYale Agrarian Studies Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight24.1 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2015-953456

Reviews"A masterful achievement, advancing our understanding of human knowledge about birds in Africa and the ways gender, culture, and empire shaped science, recreation, and individual lives."--Thomas R. Dunlap, author of In the Field, Among the Feathered, "In the territory in which she is working, Jacobs has no equal. The book covers a topic--relations of race and class within the African continent's birdwatching community--that has not been written about before."--Daniel Lewis, author of The Feathery Tribe, "In this adventurous narrative that explores how relationships between humans and birds determined the course of African ornithological knowledge, Jacobs challenges accepted stereotypes and charts a new direction in African history."--Jane Carruthers, University of South Africa, "In the territory in which she is working, Jacobs has no equal. The book covers a topic--relations of race and class within the African continent's birdwatching community--that no one has addressed so synthetically and comprehensively until now."--Daniel Lewis, author of The Feathery Tribe, "The author provides a thoughtful, timely and, in many respects, exhaustive study of the accumulation and exchange of bird lore in Africa. This work fills a notable gap in the (English, at least) literature with respect to African perceptions of what has traditionally been understood from a specifically North American/European perspective."--Jill Payne, University of Cambridge, "The book should be of significance to ornithologists and any other individual interested in various aspects of African history."-- Choice, "Like the African honeyguide, Nancy Jacobs has led us to great riches. She beautifully describes the fascination of humans for birds, and thereby greatly illuminates (post-)colonial relations between humans."--Robert Ross, Leiden University, "Jacobs takes readers on a sweeping history of birding in Africa and the relationships among ornithologists, guides, and recreational bird watchers that ensued. Its intimate and touching portraits of the lives of African collectors and guides reveals much about the power relations and changing dynamics of scientific work in colonial and post-colonial Africa."--Gregg Mitman, author of Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal598.072/346

SynopsisIn 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 stunningly illustrated work offers a fascinating examination of the colonial and postcolonial politics of expertise about nature.

LC Classification NumberQL692.A1