Author: British Association for the Advancement of Science. MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Author: British Association for the Advancement of Science. MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Author: British Association for the Advancement of SciencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Report of the ... and ... Meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Author: British Association for the Advancement of Science. MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Science and society in southern Africa
Author: Saul DubowPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526119781
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This collection, dealing with case studies drawn from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Mauritius, examines the relationship between scientific claims and practices, and the exercise of colonial power. It challenges conventional views that portray science as a detached mode of reasoning with the capacity to confer benefits in a more or less even-handed manner. That science has the potential to further the collective good is not fundamentally at issue, but science can also be seen as complicit in processes of colonial domination. Not only did science assist in bolstering aspects of colonial power and exploitation, it also possessed a significant ideological component: it offered a means of legitimating colonial authority by counter-poising Western rationality to native superstition and it served to enhance the self-image of colonial or settler elites in important respects. This innovative volume ranges broadly through topics such as statistics, medicine, eugenics, agriculture, entomology and botany.
Report of the Annual Meeting of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science
Author: The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume II
Author: Saul DubowPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351882732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
This volume reproduces key historical texts concerning `colonial knowledges’. The use of the adjective 'colonial' indicates that knowledge is shaped by power relationships, while the use of the plural form, ’knowledges’ indicates the emphasis in this collection is on an interplay between different, often competing, cognitive systems. George Balandier’s notion of the colonial situation is an organising principle that runs throughout the volume, and there are four sub-themes: language and texts, categorical knowledge, the circulation of knowledge and indigenous knowledge. The volume is designed to introduce students to a range of important interventions which speak to each other today, even if they were not intended to do so when first published. An introductory essay links the themes together and explains the significance of the individual articles.
Mission & Science
Author: Carine DujardinPublisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9462700346
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Science as an instrument to justify religious missions in secular society The relationship between religion and science is complex and continues to be a topical issue. However, it is seldom zoomed in on from both Protestant andCatholic perspectives. By doing so the contributing authors in this collection gain new insights into the origin and development of missiology. Missiology is described in this book as a “project of modernity,” a contemporary form of apologetics. “Scientific apologetics” was the way to justify missions in a society that was rapidly becoming secularized. Mission & Sciencedeals with the interaction between new scientific disciplines (historiography, geography, ethnology, anthropology, linguistics) and new scientific insights (Darwin’s evolutionary theory, heliocentrism), as well as the role of the papacy and what inspired missionary practice (first in China and the Far East and later in Africa). The renewed missiology has in turn influenced the missionary practice of the twentieth century, guided by apostolic policy. Some “missionary scholars” have even had a significant influence on the scientific discourse of their time.
Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) ...
Author: British Museum (Natural History). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires
Author: Philip BonnerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521523004
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A first full-length study of the political economy of the nineteenth-century Swazi state.
A South African Bibliography to the Year 1925
Author: Sidney MendelssohnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
"In 1979 A South African bibliography to the year 1925 (SABIB), compiled under the auspices of the South AFrican Library, was published in four volumes by Mansell of London. It was essentially a revision and continuation of Sidney Mendelssohn's South African bibliography (London, 1910), which recorded literature about South Africa from earliest times to 1909, regardless of place of publication. For the new bibliography the period was extended to 1925, but for practical reasons the scope was limited to the geographical area south of the Limpopo, and certain material, for example books in African languages, sheet music, maps and periodicals, was excluded."--Preface to Supplement.