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| 100 | _aRitvo, Harriet | ||
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_aThe platypus and the mermaid, and other figments of the classifying imagination _c/ Harriet Ritvo |
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_aCambridge, Mass. _b : Harvard University Press, _c1997 |
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_axiv, 288 pages : illustrations _c; 24 cm |
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| 505 | _ahis 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. 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. | ||
| 520 | _ahis 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. 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. | ||
| 650 | _aAnimals Zoology | ||
| 650 | _aAnimals -- Great Britain -- Classification -- History -- 18th century. | ||
| 650 | _aNatural history -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. | ||
| 650 | _aPopular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. | ||
| 650 | _aNatural History. | ||
| 650 | _aPopular culture. | ||
| 650 | _aGreat Britain. | ||
| 650 | _aNames -- history. | ||
| 700 | _aRitvo, Harriet | ||
| 942 | _cBOOK | ||