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Naturalist Histories: Making Nature, Knowledge, and People in Oceania

Naturalist Histories: Making Nature, Knowledge, and People in Oceania

Bell, Joshua A.
Bell, Joshua A.
Halvaksz, Jamon Alex, II

Hardcover

Australia & OceaniaAnthropologyNature Writing

ISBN10: 0824887891
ISBN13: 9780824887896
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: Mar 31 2024
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

From early explorers to contemporary scientists, naturalists have examined island flora and fauna of Oceania, discovering new species, carefully documenting the lives of animals, and creating work central to the image of Oceania. These discoveries and exploratory moves have had profound local and global impacts. Often, however, local knowledge and communities are silent in the ethologies and histories that naturalists produce. This volume analyzes the ways that Indigenous and non-Indigenous naturalists have made island natures visible to a wider audience, their relationship with the communities where they work, as well as the unique natures that they explore and help make. In staking out an area of naturalist histories, each contributor addresses the relationship between naturalists and Oceanic communities, how these histories shaped past and present place and practices, the influence on conservations and development projects, and the relationship between scientific and indigenous knowledge. The essays span across colonial and postcolonial frames, tracing shifts in biological practice from the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century focus on taxonomy and discovery to the twentieth-century disciplinary restructurings and new collecting strategies, and contemporary concerns with biodiversity loss, conservation, and knowledge formation.

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