For the Birds : : Protecting Wildlife through the Naturalist Gaze / / Elizabeth Cherry.
2020 Award for Distinguished Book from the Animals & Society Section of the American Sociological Association One in five people in the United States is a birdwatcher, yet the popular understanding of birders reduces them to comical stereotypes, obsessives who only have eyes for their favorite r...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nature, Society, and Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (222 p.) :; 10 color photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- 1 Becoming a Birder
- 2 The Naturalist Gaze
- 3 Common Birds and the Social Construction of Nature
- 4 Wilderness, Wildness, and Mobility
- 5 Good Birds, Bad Birds, and Animal Agency
- 6 Birding and Citizen Science
- 7 Birding as a Conservation Movement
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR