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Shaping Natural History and Settler Society Mary Elizabeth Barber and the Nineteenth-Century Cape /

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"Hammel successfully illuminates how the production and circulation of Barber's work was deeply affected by contemporary attitudes towards gender and race within the colonial context of the nineteenth-century Cape. This fascinating book is destined to become a landmark in the history of sc...

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Main Author: Hammel, Tanja (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies,
Subjects:
Science > History.
Imperialism.
Africa, Sub-Saharan > History.
Ethnology.
History of Science.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
History of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Sociocultural Anthropology.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • Part I: African Experts and Science in the Cape
  • 2 African Farmers and Medical Plant Experts
  • 3 African Naturalists, Collectors, and Taxidermists
  • Part II: From Providing Data to Forging New Practices and Theories
  • 4 Gender, Class and Competition
  • 5 Proving and Circulating the Theory of Natural Selection
  • 6 Barber's Forging Scientific Practices and Theories
  • Part III: Negotiating Belonging through Science
  • 7 Arguing with Artefacts, Biofacts and Organisms: Barber's Advocacy for 1820 Settlers' Supremacy and Land Rights
  • 8 Barber's World of Birds as a Space of Gender Equality
  • 9 Colonial Legacies in Post-Colonial Collections
  • 10 'The fragments that are left behind'. .

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