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Shaping natural history and settler society : Mary Elizabeth Barber and the nineteenth-century Cape
- Title
- Shaping natural history and settler society : Mary Elizabeth Barber and the nineteenth-century Cape / Tanja Hammel.
- Author
- Hammel, Tanja
- Publication
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
- ©2019
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- Description
- xxii, 360 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
- Summary
- [E]xplores 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--back cover.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- Part I. African Experts and Science in the Cape : 2. African Farmers and Medicinal Plant Experts -- 3. African Naturalists, Collectors and Taxidermists -- Part II. From Providing Data to Forging New Practices and Theories : 4. Gender, Class and Competition -- 5. Proving and Circulating the Theory of Natural Selection -- 6. Barber's Forging Scientific Practices and Theories -- Part III. Negotiating Belonging Through Series : 7. Arguing with Artefacts, Biofacts and Organisms: Barber's Advocacy for 1820 Settlers' Supremacy and Land Rights -- 8. Barber's World of Birds As a Space of Gender Equality -- 9. Colonial Legacies in Post-Colonial Collections -- 10. 'The fragments that are left behind' -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Call Number
- Sc D 19-952
- ISBN
- 9783030226381
- 3030226387
- 9783030226398 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 1111297380
- Author
- Hammel, Tanja, author.
- Title
- Shaping natural history and settler society : Mary Elizabeth Barber and the nineteenth-century Cape / Tanja Hammel.
- Publisher
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies seriesCambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1795-1899
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 19-952