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Yes, you can access Naturalist Histories by Jamon Alex Halvaksz, Joshua A. Bell, Jamon Alex Halvaksz,Joshua A. Bell in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Storia & Storia dell'Australia e dell'Oceania. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

University of Hawaii Press

Year

2024

eBook ISBN

9780824888794

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Topic

Storia

Subtopic

Storia dell'Australia e dell'Oceania

Contents
Introduction: Circulation, Dispossession, Knowledge, and the Practices of Science
CHAPTER 1 Land of the Lost Volcano: Contemporary “Discovery” and Dispossession in Papua New Guinea
CHAPTER 2 The Troubled Image of a Biodiversity “Hot Spot” Conservation, Christianity, and History in Santo, Vanuatu
CHAPTER 3 The Wau Ecology Institute and the Knowledge Economy
CHAPTER 4 “… It Was Only Natural …” Asymmetrical Labor and Narratives of Nature of the 1928 USDA Sugarcane Expedition
CHAPTER 5 Nature Collecting in the New Hebrides
CHAPTER 6 “Filming in Cannibal-Land” The New Guinea Ethnographic Representations of Zoologists E. A. Briggs and Jock Marshall
CHAPTER 7 Naturalists and Naval Officers among the Headhunters: Early Imperial Explorations in the Natures of New Georgia
CHAPTER 8 Dueling Natures: Berthold Seemann—Botanist, Naturalist, and Nascent Anthropologist
CHAPTER 9 Thomas Huxley, Field Ethnographer
CHAPTER 10 Afterword: Telling Stories from the Other Side
CHAPTER 11 Reflections: On Engagements with Indigenous Knowledges and Collections
Editors and Contributors
Index

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