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OverviewThis book explores 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 the life and works 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 and displayed in museums and critically analyses their content and silences. The book traces Barber’s legacy across three continents in collections and archives, offering insights into the politics of memory and history-making. At the same time, it forges a nuanced argument, incorporating study of the North and South, the history of science and social history, and the past and the present. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tanja HammelPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2019 Weight: 0.506kg ISBN: 9783030226411ISBN 10: 3030226417 Pages: 360 Publication Date: 25 August 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1 Introduction.- Part I: African Experts and Science in the Cape.- 2 African Farmers and Medical 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 Science.- 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’.ReviewsAuthor InformationTanja Hammel works in the History Department at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her PhD dissertation, on which this monograph is based, received the annual faculty award for the humanities at the University of Basel in 2018. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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