Naturalist Histories : : Making Nature, Knowledge, and People in Oceania /

Naturalist Histories : : Making Nature, Knowledge, and People in Oceania / / ed. by Joshua A. Bell, Jamon Alex Halvaksz.

From early explorers to contemporary scientists, naturalists have examined island flora and fauna of Oceania, discovering new species, carefully documenting the lives of animals, and creating work central to the image of Oceania. These “discoveries” and exploratory moves have had profound local and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Complete eBook-Package 2024
MitwirkendeR:
Bell, Joshua A.,
Craig, Barry,
Gordon, A. Ross,
Halvaksz, Jamon Alex,
Hviding, Edvard,
Lepowsky, Maria,
Lindstrom, Lamont,
Lui-Chivizhe, Leah,
Mondragon, Carlos,
Mondragón, Carlos,
Newell, Jennifer,
Newell, Jenny,
Scaglion, Richard,
West, Paige,
HerausgeberIn:
Bell, Joshua A.,
Halvaksz, Jamon Alex,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2024]
©2024
Year of Publication:2024
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (292 p.) :; 25 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Circulation, Dispossession, Knowledge, and the Practices of Science
  • CHAPTER 1 Land of the Lost Volcano: Contemporary “Discovery” and Dispossession in Papua New Guinea
  • CHAPTER 2 The Troubled Image of a Biodiversity “Hot Spot” Conservation, Christianity, and History in Santo, Vanuatu
  • CHAPTER 3 The Wau Ecology Institute and the Knowledge Economy
  • CHAPTER 4 “… It Was Only Natural …” Asymmetrical Labor and Narratives of Nature of the 1928 USDA Sugarcane Expedition
  • CHAPTER 5 Nature Collecting in the New Hebrides
  • CHAPTER 6 “Filming in Cannibal-Land” The New Guinea Ethnographic Representations of Zoologists E. A. Briggs and Jock Marshall
  • CHAPTER 7 Naturalists and Naval Officers among the Headhunters: Early Imperial Explorations in the Natures of New Georgia
  • CHAPTER 8 Dueling Natures: Berthold Seemann—Botanist, Naturalist, and Nascent Anthropologist
  • CHAPTER 9 Thomas Huxley, Field Ethnographer
  • CHAPTER 10 Afterword: Telling Stories from the Other Side
  • CHAPTER 11 Reflections: On Engagements with Indigenous Knowledges and Collections
  • Editors and Contributors
  • Index

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