In this unique and unprecedented study of birding in Africa, historian Nancy Jacobs reconstructs the collaborations between well-known ornithologists and the largely forgotten guides, hunters, and taxidermists who assisted them. Drawing on ethnography, scientific publications, p…
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: VERNACULAR BIRDING AND ORNITHOLOGY IN AFRICA -- CHAPTER 1. African Vernacular Birding Traditions -- CHAPTER 2. Early Birding Contact, 1500 -1700 -- CHAPTER 3. Ornithology Comes to Southern Africa, 1700 -1900 -- CHAP…
In this unique and unprecedented study of birding in Africa, historian Nancy Jacobs reconstructs the collaborations between well-known ornithologists and the largely forgotten guides, hunters, and taxidermists who assisted them. Drawing on ethnography, scientific publications, p…