Shaping Natural History and Settler Society

Shaping Natural History and Settler Society
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 372
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1013272137
ISBN-13 : 9781013272134
Rating : 4/5 (134 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Shaping Natural History and Settler Society by : Tanja Hammel

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.


Shaping Natural History and Settler Society Related Books

Shaping Natural History and Settler Society
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Tanja Hammel
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-08 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
Shaping Natural History and Settler Society
Language: en
Pages: 375
Authors: Tanja Hammel
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-23 - Publisher: Springer Nature

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
Shaping Natural History and Settler Society
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Tanja Hammel
Categories: Africa, Sub-Saharan-History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Hammel successfully illuminates how the production and circulation of Barber's work was deeply affected by contemporary attitudes towards gender and race withi
Growing Wild
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Jasmin Rindlisbacher
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-30 - Publisher: African Books Collective

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Mary Elizabeth Barber (18181899), 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 a
The Scientific Imagination in South Africa
Language: en
Pages: 419
Authors: William Beinart
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-20 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An innovative three hundred year exploration of the social and political contexts of science and the scientific imagination in South Africa.