Wild and Wonderful - Vanessa Manceron

Wild and Wonderful

An Ethnography of English Naturalists
Buch | Softcover
300 Seiten
2025
Hau (Verlag)
978-1-914363-09-2 (ISBN)
34,90 inkl. MwSt
Examining social constructions and perceptions of nature.

In Wild and Wonderful, social anthropologist Vanessa Manceron investigates an understudied but indispensable scientific practice: getting to know and recognize the living worlds around us. Her research takes her to England, where a longstanding naturalist tradition brings together professionals, academics, and amateurs to study the world around them. Observing the natural world here is regarded not as a simple hobby, but as a necessary activity. This is participatory science, an itinerant brand of scholarship that immerses itself in a specific and delimited territory, meticulously documenting the species living there and how they develop and expand their domain or regress and disappear. Manceron leads us through woods and fields, showing us another way of looking, of paying attention to minute differences, sounds, and variations of color. Her book is both a contribution to the anthropology of science and an opportunity to take a fresh look at our relationship with nature, affording us a glimpse of another way of living and living with.

Vanessa Manceron is a social anthropologist and researcher at the Centre national de recherche scientifique and director of the Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative in Paris. Michael Taylor has translated not only many book-length essays in art history, including Matisse's correspondence with M.-A. Couturier, but several volumes of poetry, including Victor Segalen's Stèles and Horace's complete odes. He is also the author of books on Rembrandt and Vermeer. Stephen Hugh-Jones is Emeritus Research Associate at the Cambridge University Department of Social Anthropology. His research and publications focus on the culture of the Eastern Tukanoan peoples of Colombian Amazonia.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Knowing and Recognizing

1.Involvement
An English Countryside
Connecting
Watching Over

2.Pairing
Genesis
Coming into Contact

3.A Window on Existence
Completeness
Freeing Oneself

4.Assembling
Microcosm
Classifications and Variations

5.Collating
Specimens and Images
Misidentifying
Perceptual Pitfalls
Fusing

6.Wonderful Creatures
Avian Zoography
Otherness and Immersion
Parting the Curtain

7.Vanishing
Still Succumbing
What Is Going on?
The Burden of Responsibility
Recomposing

Conclusion. A Form of Attention

References

Illustrations

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.1.2025
Übersetzer Michael Taylor
Vorwort Stephen Hugh-Jones
Zusatzinfo 15 halftones
Verlagsort IL
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-914363-09-4 / 1914363094
ISBN-13 978-1-914363-09-2 / 9781914363092
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