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Titolo: The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination
Editore: Harvard Univ Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Data di pubblicazione: 1997
Lingua: Inglese
ISBN 10: 0674673573
ISBN 13: 9780674673571
Rilegatura: Hardcover
Edizione: First Edition, Second Printing.
Condizione: Good
Condizione della sovraccoperta: Good w/Protective Cover

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An account of taxonomy as zoological classification and as anthropological study which offers a perspective on the constantly shifting interactions of scientific lore, cultural ideas, and the popular imagination. Ritvo (history, MIT) shows how laymen and experts vied to classify and categorize every new specimen of plant or animal, and what the resulting controversies sometimes revealed about human society for example, the sexual proclivities of women, or the imagined hierarchy of nations and races. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Harriet Ritvo is Arthur J. Conner Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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