Shaping Natural History And Settler Society

Author : Tanja Hammel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781013272127
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaping Natural History and Settler Society written by Tanja Hammel and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Barber, a British-born settler scientist who lived in the Cape during the nineteenth century. It provides a lens into a range of subjects within the history of knowledge and science, gender and social history, postcolonial, critical heritage and archival studies. The book examines the international importance of the life and works of a marginalized scientist, the instrumentalisation of science to settlers' political concerns and reveals the pivotal but largely silenced contribution of indigenous African experts. Including a variety of material, visual and textual sources, this study explores how these artefacts are archived and displayed in museums and critically analyses their content and silences. The book traces Barber's legacy across three continents in collections and archives, offering insights into the politics of memory and history-making. At the same time, it forges a nuanced argument, incorporating study of the North and South, the history of science and social history, and the past and the present. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Tanja Hammel
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030226395
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaping Natural History and Settler Society written by Tanja Hammel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Barber, a British-born settler scientist who lived in the Cape during the nineteenth century. It provides a lens into a range of subjects within the history of knowledge and science, gender and social history, postcolonial, critical heritage and archival studies. The book examines the international importance of the life and works of a marginalized scientist, the instrumentalisation of science to settlers' political concerns and reveals the pivotal but largely silenced contribution of indigenous African experts. Including a variety of material, visual and textual sources, this study explores how these artefacts are archived and displayed in museums and critically analyses their content and silences. The book traces Barber’s legacy across three continents in collections and archives, offering insights into the politics of memory and history-making. At the same time, it forges a nuanced argument, incorporating study of the North and South, the history of science and social history, and the past and the present.

Author : Tanja Hammel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783030226411
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaping Natural History and Settler Society written by Tanja Hammel and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 science in South Africa."--Nigel Penn, University of Cape Town, South Africa "This book is an original study of the contributions of a woman scientist. It is the most detailed study of its kind ... The book will make a significant addition to the global literature that examines the colonial and gendered dimensions of the history of science." --William Beinart, University of Oxford, UK "Moving seamlessly between biographical, local and international frames, this book provides a fresh look at the global knowledge transformations of the nineteenth century." --Kirsten McKenzie, University of Sydney, Australia This book explores the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Barber, a British-born settler scientist who lived in the Cape during the nineteenth century. It provides a lens into a range of subjects within the history of knowledge and science, gender and social history, postcolonial, critical heritage and archival studies. The book examines the international importance of a marginalized scientist, the instrumentalisation of science to settlers' political concerns and reveals the pivotal but largely silenced contribution of indigenous African experts. Including a variety of material, visual and textual sources, this study explores how these artefacts are archived in museums and critically analyses their content and silences. The book traces Barber's legacy across three continents, offering insights into the politics of memory and history-making.

Author : Scott Lauria Morgensen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452932727
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spaces Between Us written by Scott Lauria Morgensen and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the intimate relationship of non-Native and Native sexual politics in the United States

Author : Alan Cohen
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN 13 : 3906927040
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary Elizabeth Barber: Growing Wild written by Alan Cohen and published by BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818–1899), born in Britain, arrived in the Cape Colony in 1820 where she spent the rest of her life as a rolling stone, as she lived in and near Grahamstown, the diamond and gold fields, Pietermaritzburg, Malvern near Durban and on various farms in the eastern part of the Cape Colony. She has been perceived as ‘the most advanced woman of her time’, yet her legacy has attracted relatively little attention. She was the first woman ornithologist in South Africa, one of the first who propagated Darwin’s theory of evolution, an early archaeologist, keen botanist and interested lepidopterist. In her scientific writing, she propagated a new gender order; positioned herself as a feminist avant la lettre without relying on difference models and at the same time made use of genuinely racist argumentation. This is the first publication of her edited scientific correspondence. The letters – transcribed by Alan Cohen, who has written a number of biographical articles on Barber and her brothers – are primarily addressed to the entomologist Roland Trimen, the curator of the South African Museum in Cape Town. Today, the letters are housed at the Royal Entomological Society in St Albans. This book also includes a critical introduction by historian Tanja Hammel who has published a number of articles and published a monograph (2019) on Mary Elizabeth Barber.

Author : William Beinart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108837085
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scientific Imagination in South Africa written by William Beinart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative three hundred year exploration of the social and political contexts of science and the scientific imagination in South Africa.

Author : Natalie A. Zacek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139489976
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776 written by Natalie A. Zacek and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776 is the first study of the history of the federated colony of the Leeward Islands - Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, and St Kitts - that covers all four islands in the period from their independence from Barbados in 1670 up to the outbreak of the American Revolution, which reshaped the Caribbean. Natalie A. Zacek emphasizes the extent to which the planters of these islands attempted to establish recognizably English societies in tropical islands based on plantation agriculture and African slavery. By examining conflicts relating to ethnicity and religion, controversies regarding sex and social order, and a series of virulent battles over the limits of local and imperial authority, this book depicts these West Indian colonists as skilled improvisers who adapted to an unfamiliar environment, and as individuals as committed as other American colonists to the norms and values of English society, politics, and culture.

Author : Filipa Lowndes Vicente
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031277953
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860–1975 written by Filipa Lowndes Vicente and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-02 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection presents the first critical and historical overview of photography in Portuguese colonial Africa to an English-speaking audience. Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860–1975 brings together sixteen scholars from interdisciplinary fields as varied as history, anthropology, art history, visual culture and museum studies, to consider some of the key aspects in the visual representation of the longest-lasting European colonial empire in the African continent. The chapters span over two centuries and cover five formerly colonial territories – Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe – deploying a range of methodologies to explore the multiple meanings and the contested uses of the photographic image across the realms of politics, science, culture and war. This book responds to a marked surge of international interest in the relationship between photography and colonialism, which has hitherto largely overlooked the Portuguese imperial context, by delivering the most recent scholarly findings to a broad readership.

Author : Alvaro Viljoen
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0323997953
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The South African Herbal Pharmacopoeia written by Alvaro Viljoen and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2022-11-24 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South African Herbal Pharmacopeia: Monographs of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants is a collection of 25 original monographs of medicinal plants that are currently under commercialization or have the potential for commercialization into herbal medicinal products for the global marketplace. Chapters include a general overview covering synonyms, common names, conservation status, botany, geographical distribution, ethnopharmacology, commercialization, pharmacological evaluation, chemical profiling and quality control, including HPTLC fingerprint analysis, UPLC analysis, gas chromatography and mid-infrared spectroscopy analysis. Academics researching pharmacy and analytical chemistry will benefit from the detailed chemical profile on each species presented. Industrial manufacturers of herbal products, herbal medicines, cosmetics, food supplements, and national and international policymakers and regulators will benefit from the overview provided at the beginning of each chapter. Provides a comprehensive, up-to-date literature review on 25 medicinal plants of South Africa Documents quality control protocols for chemical fingerprinting and biomarker identification in plant material Includes updated safety profiles of medicinal plants

Author : S. Nair-Venugopal
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137009284
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gaze of the West and Framings of the East written by S. Nair-Venugopal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores Western attitudes towards the phenomenon of Easternization, drawing upon Eastern perspectives and examining the impact upon contemporary culture to argue that Easternization is another type of globalization.