Isis

Journal: Isis

Abbreviation

Isis (Chic. Ill.)

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University of Chicago Press

ISSN

0021-1753
1545-6994

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Doug Macdougall
Sommer, Marianne (2009)
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Dirk Preuß; Uwe Hoßfeld; Olaf Breidbach(Editors). Anthropologie nach Haeckel. 256pp., ﬁgs., illus., index. Stuttgart: Franz SteinerVerlag, 2006.
Sommer, Marianne (2008)
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Modern German Midwifery, 1885-1960
Schlünder, Martina (2015)
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Tania Munz. The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language
Lustig, Abigail Jane (2017)
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Tobias Scheidegger. “Petite Science”: Außeruniversitäre Naturforschung in der Schweiz um 1900
Güttler, Nils (2019)
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Hunting and Masculine Knowledge: A Swiss Naturalist in South America and the Coloniality of Nineteenth-Century Science
Bartoletti, Tomás (2024)
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During the mid-nineteenth century, the shifting boundaries of natural history and hunting practices were at the core of debates about general and practical knowledge, science and leisure, hunters and poachers. Focusing on the Swiss naturalist Johann Jakob von Tschudi and his travels to South America, this article reexamines the relationships of natural history and hunting skills in forging a kind of scientific "hegemonic" masculinity. For this purpose, it reconstructs Tschudi's social formation in bourgeois circles during the institutionalization of natural history in Switzerland. More than his natural history knowledge, Tschudi's hunting skills were crucial for the success of his Peruvian expedition (1838-1842), and thus his zoological treatise Fauna peruana could be considered a manual for hunting in the Amazonian rainforest and the Andes. Finally, this article analyzes the class and race intersections of Tschudi's scientific discourse about poachers in the German states and in the Brazilian empire. The study of Tschudi's biography, especially his roles as a global naturalist and a "true hunter," sheds light on natural history as a space for constructing class, gender, and race hierarchies during the mid-nineteenth century, in both South American and German-speaking contexts.
Colin B. Burke. Information and Intrigue: From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss. (History and Foundations of Information Science.) xii + 370 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2014. $45 (cloth).
Zetti, Daniela F. (2016)
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Neurohistory is bunk?
Stadler, Max (2014)
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William Rankin. After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century. vii + 398 pp., figs., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2016. $55 (cloth)
Güttler, Nils (2018)
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