A Sparrman S Ethnographical Collection From South Africa
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A Sparrman S Ethnographical Collection From South Africa
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Author : Ione Rudner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957
A Sparrman S Ethnographical Collection From South Africa written by Ione Rudner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with Ethnology categories.
A Sparrmann S Ethnographical Collection From South Africa
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Author : Ione Rudner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957
A Sparrmann S Ethnographical Collection From South Africa written by Ione Rudner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with categories.
A Sparrman S Ethnographical Collection From James Cook S 2nd Expedition 1772 1775
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Author : Jan Georg Karl Söderström
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1939
A Sparrman S Ethnographical Collection From James Cook S 2nd Expedition 1772 1775 written by Jan Georg Karl Söderström and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with Ethnology categories.
For biographical account of Anders Sparrman (1748-1820), a pupil of Linnaeus, see pp. 12-14. The work, written in Swedish, was translated into English by M. Leijer, the text figures were drawn by A. Hjelm.
Writing The South African San
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Author : Lara Atkin
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-01-01
Writing The South African San written by Lara Atkin and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book offers an innovative new framework for reading British and settler representations of Indigenous peoples in the nineteenth century. Taking the representation of the Southern African San as its case study, it uses methodologies drawn from critical anthropology, imperial history and literary studies to show the role that literary representations of Indigenous peoples played in popularising the hierarchical view of racial difference. The study identifies an ‘ethnographic poetics’ in which the claims of scientific discourse blend with a consciously literary preference for metaphor and analogy. This created a set of mobile figures that could be disseminated to different reading publics in both Britain and the colonies through a variety of literary genres and textual media. It advances research on race and imperial history by focusing on the importance of literature - from newspapers and periodicals to popular novels - in shaping discourses of national and racial belonging in Britain and the Cape Colony.
The South African Archaeological Bulletin
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
The South African Archaeological Bulletin written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Africa, Southern categories.
The Eponym Dictionary Of Birds
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Author : Bo Beolens
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-03-19
The Eponym Dictionary Of Birds written by Bo Beolens and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-19 with Nature categories.
Birdwatchers often come across bird names that include a person's name, either in the vernacular (English) name or latinised in the scientific nomenclature. Such names are properly called eponyms, and few people will not have been curious as to who some of these people were (or are). Names such as Darwin, Wallace, Audubon, Gould and (Gilbert) White are well known to most people. Keener birders will have yearned to see Pallas's Warbler, Hume's Owl, Swainson's Thrush, Steller's Eider or Brünnich's Guillemot. But few people today will have even heard of Albertina's Myna, Barraband's Parrot, Guerin's Helmetcrest or Savigny's Eagle Owl. This extraordinary new work lists more than 4,000 eponymous names covering 10,000 genera, species and subspecies of birds. Every taxon with an eponymous vernacular or scientific name (whether in current usage or not) is listed, followed by a concise biography of the person concerned. These entries vary in length from a few lines to several paragraphs, depending on the availability of information or the importance of the individual's legacy. The text is punctuated with intriguing or little-known facts, unearthed in the course of the authors' extensive research. Ornithologists will find this an invaluable reference, especially to sort out birds named after people with identical surnames or in situations where only a person's forenames are used. But all birders will find much of interest in this fascinating volume, a book to dip into time and time again whenever their curiosity is aroused.
The Zoological Exploration Of Southern Africa 1650 1790
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Author : L. C. Rookmaaker
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 1989-06-01
The Zoological Exploration Of Southern Africa 1650 1790 written by L. C. Rookmaaker and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-06-01 with Nature categories.
The 18th century witnessed a new interest in African animals. Research was undertaken at the Cape of Good Hope by explorers whose books, manuscripts and drawings concerning mammals and birds are listed and discussed within this text.;This text gives details on four collections of 300 mammal and bird drawings connected with Levaillant's research. Many examples are illustrated. The zoological contents of the material left by these seven explorers are analyzed for all mammals and birds emphasizing the history, taxonomy, nomenclature and zoogeography.
Botanical Exploration Southern Africa
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Author : Mary Gunn
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 1981-06-01
Botanical Exploration Southern Africa written by Mary Gunn and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-06-01 with Science categories.
This text gives biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in Southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times.
The Mammals Of The Southern African Sub Region
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Author : J. D. Skinner
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-11-15
The Mammals Of The Southern African Sub Region written by J. D. Skinner and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-15 with Science categories.
"This third, extensively revised edition of The Mammals of the Southern African Subregion contains detailed descriptions of all mammals that occur naturally on the African mainland south of the Cunene and Zambezi rivers, together with all mammals indigenous to the subregion's coastal waters. The rapid accumulation of new information resulting from mammal research in southern Africa, together with radical taxonomic changes across all levels of mammalian classification, have necessitated this new edition, which presents the best and latest data accurately in one comprehensive volume for use not only by scientists but also by an increasingly wide audience of general readers with an interest in the natural history of southern Africa." "J. D. Skinner and C. T. Chimimba have revised, expanded and updated the text in a major project overseen by an editorial committee constituted by the Mammal Research Institute at the University of Pretoria. Specialists on each mammalian order have served as subeditors, and a range of independent and internationally recognised authorities have reviewed every species description." "In this edition all the distribution maps and many of the illustrations of mammal prints have been updated and redrawn, several new colour plates have been added, and the whole design of this definitive reference work has been enhanced to ensure easy access to information."--BOOK JACKET.
Dress As Social Relations
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Author : Vibeke Maria Viestad
language : en
Publisher: Wits University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-01
Dress As Social Relations written by Vibeke Maria Viestad and has been published by Wits University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-01 with Social Science categories.
To dress is a uniquely human experience, but practices and meanings of dress vary greatly among people. In a Western cultural tradition, the practice of dressing ‘properly’ has for centuries distinguished ‘civilised’ people from ‘savages’. Through travel literature and historical ethnographic descriptions of the Bushmen of southern Africa, such perceptions and prejudices have made their mark also on the modern research tradition. Because Bushmen were widely considered to be ‘nearly naked’ the study of dress has played a limited part in academic writings on Bushman culture. In Dress as Social Relations Vibeke Maria Viestad challenges this myth of the nearly naked Bushman and provides an interdisciplinary study of Bushman dress, as it is represented in the archives and material culture of historical Bushman communities. Maintaining a critical perspective, Viestad provides an interpretation of the significance of dress for historical Bushman people. Dress, she argues, formed an embodied practice of social relations between humans, animals and other powerful beings of the Bushman world; moreover, this complex and meaningful practice was intimately related to subsistence strategies and social identity. The historical collections under scrutiny present a wide variety of research material representing different aspects of the bodily practice of dress. Whereas the Bleek & Lloyd archive of oral myths and narratives has become renowned for its great research potential, the artefact collections of Dorothea Bleek and Louis Fourie are much less known and have not earlier been published in a richly illustrated and comprehensive way. Dress as Social Relations is aimed at scholars and students of archaeology, anthropology, material culture studies, dress studies, ethnographic studies, museology, culture historical studies and African studies, but will also be of interest to people of descendant communities.