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The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination - Hardcover

Ritvo, Harriet

 
9780674673571: The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0674673573 ISBN 13: 9780674673571
Verlag: HARVARD UNIV PR, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

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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Verlag
HARVARD UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0674673573
ISBN 13 
9780674673571
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
288
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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