Isbn: 9780674673588 - the platypus and the mermaid: and other figments of the classifying imagination (22 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Capturing the fervor of the Victorian age for classifying and categorizing, Ritvo depicts a complex of competing groupsnaturalists and zoologists, farmers and showmen, butchers and artistsdeploying rival schemes to impose order on nature.

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paperback in good condition, some annotations; 288 pages.

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Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination. Book.

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Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. reprint edition. 304 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Condizione: New.

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Condizione: New. Capturing the fervor of the Victorian age for classifying and categorizing, Ritvo depicts a complex of competing groups-naturalists and zoologists, farmers and showmen, butchers and artists-deploying rival schemes to impose order on nature.&Uumlber.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - interactions of scientific lore, cultural ideas, and the popular imagination.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. "Cats is 'dogs,' and rabbits is 'dogs,' and so's parrots; but this `ere 'tortis' is a insect," a porter explains to an astonished traveler in a nineteenth-century Punch cartoon. Railways were not the only British institution to schematize the world. This enormously entertaining book captures the fervor of the Victorian age for classifying and categorizing every new specimen, plant or animal, that British explorers and soldiers and sailors brought home. As she depicts a whole complex of competing groups deploying rival schemes and nomenclatures, Harriet Ritvo shows us a society drawing and redrawing its own boundaries and ultimately identifying itself.The experts (whether calling themselves naturalists, zoologists, or comparative anatomists) agreed on their superior authority if nothing else, but the laymen had their say--and Ritvo shows us a world in which butchers and artists, farmers and showmen vied to impose order on the wild profusion of nature. Sometimes assumptions or preoccupations overlapped; sometimes open disagreement or hostility emerged, exposing fissures in the social fabric or contested cultural territory. Of the greatest interest were creatures that confounded or crossed established categories; in the discussions provoked by these mishaps, monstrosities, and hybrids we can see ideas about human society--about the sexual proclivities of women, for instance, or the imagined hierarchy of nations and races.A thoroughly absorbing account of taxonomy--as zoological classification and as anthropological study--The Platypus and the Mermaid offers a new perspective on the constantly shifting, ever suggestive interactions of scientific lore, cultural ideas, and the popular imagination. Capturing the fervor of the Victorian age for classifying and categorizing, Ritvo depicts a complex of competing groupsnaturalists and zoologists, farmers and showmen, butchers and artistsdeploying rival schemes to impose order on nature. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…