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02651aam a2200421Ii 4500 001 1AA0EE866B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 151127s2016 ctuaf b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0300209614 020 $a 9780300209617 035 $a (OCoLC)930798087 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c ERASA $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d BDX $d BTCTA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d ORZ $d YAM $d NYP $d COO $d IWA $d SILO 043 $a f------ 050 4 $a QL677.5 J33x 2016 100 1 $a Jacobs, Nancy Joy, $e author. 245 10 $a Birders of Africa : $b history of a network / $c Nancy J. Jacobs. 264 1 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c [2016] 300 $a xiii, 325 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Yale Agrarian Studies Series 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-314) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 8 $a 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. 650 0 $a Bird watchers $z Africa $x History. 650 0 $a Ornithologists $z Africa $x History. 650 0 $a Taxidermists $z Africa $x History. 650 0 $a Traditional ecological knowledge $z Africa. 650 0 $a Ornithology $z Africa $x History. 650 0 $a Ethnozoology $z Africa. 650 0 $a Birds $z Africa $v Nomenclature (Popular) 650 0 $a Birds $x Nomenclature (Popular) 650 0 $a Birds $z Africa. 650 0 $a Ethnoscience $z Africa. 830 0 $a Yale agrarian studies. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826050650.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1AA0EE866B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search