Shaping Natural History and Settler Society : Mary Elizabeth Barber and the Nineteenth-Century Cape.
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| Language: | English |
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2019.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Table of Contents:
- Shaping Natural History and Settler Society
- Preface
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Reference
- Praise for Shaping Natural History and Settler Society
- Abbreviations
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- The History of Science in a Colonial Context
- White Women in the Historiography of Science in a (Settler) Colonial Context
- Research Approach
- Archives and Sources
- Overview
- References
- Part I: African Experts and Science in the Cape
- Chapter 2: African Farmers and Medicinal Plant Experts
- Co-operation in Farming the Land
- Living with Plants
- Veterinary Plant Knowledge
- Wagon Drivers' Knowledge Creation
- Diviners' and Herbalists' Co-operation and Resistance
- Barber and Her Brothers' Social Darwinism
- References
- Chapter 3: African Naturalists, Collectors and Taxidermists
- Collectors As Companions
- Informants As Providers of 'Soft Facts'
- Taxidermists and Their Impact on Ornithology
- References
- Part II: From Providing Data to Forging New Practices and Theories
- Chapter 4: Gender, Class and Competition
- Safeguarding Patriarchal Metropolitan Privileges in Botany
- How Barber's Local Lepidopterist Network Lent Her Wings
- The Marginalisation of the First South African Woman Ornithologist
- Collaboration and Competition Among Women Scientists at the Cape
- References
- Chapter 5: Proving and Circulating the Theory of Natural Selection
- Barber Becomes a Darwinist
- Barber's Corroborative Evidence for Natural Selection
- Butterfly Mimicry and the Birth of a New Research Field
- Sexual Selection and Women's Position in Society
- References
- Chapter 6: Barber's Forging Scientific Practices and Theories
- Shaping New Ornithological Practices
- Barber's Theories
- Butterflies Named After Xhosa Chiefs: From Visual Similarity to Visible Concealment
- References.
- Part III: Negotiating Belonging Through Science
- Chapter 7: Arguing with Artefacts, Biofacts and Organisms: Barber's Advocacy for 1820 Settlers' Supremacy and Land Rights
- Barber's Construction of Africans
- Barber's Use of Metaphors to Emphasise Afrikaners' Inferiority
- Thinking with Plants: Barber's Hostility Towards Australians/Britons and Botanical Nationalism
- Reasoning with Artefacts and Biofacts: Theories for Appropriating Territory
- References
- Chapter 8: Barber's World of Birds As a Space of Gender Equality
- Egalitarian Parenting and Biological Equality
- Barber's Opinion Regarding the Institution of Marriage
- Barber on Birds, Platonic Friendships and Alternative Relationships to Marriage
- Advocacy for the Protection of Birds and the Rights of Women
- Barber and the Rights of African Women
- References
- Chapter 9: Colonial Legacies in Post-Colonial Collections
- 'Screen Memories' and 'Anachronistic Space' in Museum Displays
- Digital Plant Collections and Privatisation of Knowledge
- References
- Chapter 10: 'The fragments that are left behind'
- References
- Untitled
- Correction to: Shaping Natural History and Settler Society
- Bibliography
- Archival Sources
- South Africa
- History Museum, Albany Museum Complex, Grahamstown (HM)
- The Selmar Schonland Herbarium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown
- Cory Library (CL), Rhodes University, Grahamstown
- University of Cape Town (UCT), Special Collections, Manuscripts and Archives
- Bolus Herbarium, UCT
- National Library South Africa, Cape Town
- Western Cape Archives and Records Service, Cape Town
- Amazyana Archive, Tongaat Hulett Sugar Company, Private Estate
- KwaZulu-Natal Museum, Archive and Library, Pietermaritzburg
- United Kingdom
- Kew Library, Arts and Archives (KLAA), Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London.
- The Linnean Society of London, Library &
- Archives
- The Royal Entomological Society, Library, St Albans (RES)
- Natural History Museum, London, General Library, Owen Collection
- The Bristol Record Office
- Late Gareth Mitford-Barberton's Private Family Archive
- Alan Cohen's Private Archive
- Ireland
- Trinity College Dublin Herbarium (TCD)
- Book Repository, Trinity College Dublin
- Australia
- National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Melbourne (MEL)
- Newspapers and Periodicals
- Online Archives
- Index.