Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
South African Journal of Natural History
The South African Journal of Natural History
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Some vols. include list of members.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Some vols. include list of members.
The Scientific Imagination in South Africa
Author: William Beinart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108837085
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
An innovative three hundred year exploration of the social and political contexts of science and the scientific imagination in South Africa.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108837085
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
An innovative three hundred year exploration of the social and political contexts of science and the scientific imagination in South Africa.
A Search for Origins
Author: Trefor Jenkins
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1776142306
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
A study of the 'Cradle of Humanity and its history. The 'Cradle of Humankind' (COH), bordering Gauteng and the North-West Province, was declared a World Heritage Site for the wealth of the human and animal fossils found there. Research based on fossils found in the area as well as signs of early human habitation have shed new light on the evolution of humankind and on the significant role that southern Africa played in the development of modern humans. A Search for Origins aims to provide an overview of the history of the COH, and of the important discoveries that have been made there, for a non-specialist audience. A number of general accounts have been written which have concentrated on the palaeontological discoveries made there. No systematic account written by specialists in their disciplines has, however, been published about the wider history of the COH and surrounding areas. In particular, no overview spanning the evolution of early plant and animal life, human development and recent and colonial history as reflected in discoveries linked to the COH, has been attempted. This edited volume frames the scientific advances that have been made in the COH against the intellectual and political background out of which they emerged. The multi-disciplinary approach - from a wide range of specialists -is innovative and ground-breaking.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1776142306
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
A study of the 'Cradle of Humanity and its history. The 'Cradle of Humankind' (COH), bordering Gauteng and the North-West Province, was declared a World Heritage Site for the wealth of the human and animal fossils found there. Research based on fossils found in the area as well as signs of early human habitation have shed new light on the evolution of humankind and on the significant role that southern Africa played in the development of modern humans. A Search for Origins aims to provide an overview of the history of the COH, and of the important discoveries that have been made there, for a non-specialist audience. A number of general accounts have been written which have concentrated on the palaeontological discoveries made there. No systematic account written by specialists in their disciplines has, however, been published about the wider history of the COH and surrounding areas. In particular, no overview spanning the evolution of early plant and animal life, human development and recent and colonial history as reflected in discoveries linked to the COH, has been attempted. This edited volume frames the scientific advances that have been made in the COH against the intellectual and political background out of which they emerged. The multi-disciplinary approach - from a wide range of specialists -is innovative and ground-breaking.
A Biographical Dictionary of Contributors to the Natural History of the Free State and Lesotho
Author: Rodney Moffett
Publisher: UJ Press
ISBN: 1920382356
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
This work briefly records the lives and achievements of 502 men and women who contributed, or are still contributing, to the natural history of the Free State and Lesotho, between 1829 and 2013.
Publisher: UJ Press
ISBN: 1920382356
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
This work briefly records the lives and achievements of 502 men and women who contributed, or are still contributing, to the natural history of the Free State and Lesotho, between 1829 and 2013.
Zoologist: a Monthly Journal of Natural History
Author: James Edmund Harting
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385124689
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385124689
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.
Ambivalent
Author: Patricia Hayes
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821446886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Going beyond photography as an isolated medium to engage larger questions and interlocking forms of expression and historical analysis, Ambivalent gathers a new generation of scholars based on the continent to offer an expansive frame for thinking about questions of photography and visibility in Africa. The volume presents African relationships with photography—and with visibility more generally—in ways that engage and disrupt the easy categories and genres that have characterized the field to date. Contributors pose new questions concerning the instability of the identity photograph in South Africa; ethnographic photographs as potential history; humanitarian discourse from the perspective of photographic survivors of atrocity photojournalism; the nuanced passage from studio to screen in postcolonial digital portraiture; and the burgeoning visual activism in West Africa. As the contributors show, photography is itself a historical subject: it involves arrangement, financing, posture, positioning, and other kinds of work that are otherwise invisible. By moving us outside the frame of the photograph itself, by refusing to accept the photograph as the last word, this book makes photography an engaging and important subject of historical investigation. Ambivalent‘s contributors bring photography into conversation with orality, travel writing, ritual, psychoanalysis, and politics, with new approaches to questions of race, time, and postcolonial and decolonial histories. Contributors: George Emeka Agbo, Isabelle de Rezende, Jung Ran Forte, Ingrid Masondo, Phindi Mnyaka, Okechukwu Nwafor, Vilho Shigwedha, Napandulwe Shiweda, Drew Thompson
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821446886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Going beyond photography as an isolated medium to engage larger questions and interlocking forms of expression and historical analysis, Ambivalent gathers a new generation of scholars based on the continent to offer an expansive frame for thinking about questions of photography and visibility in Africa. The volume presents African relationships with photography—and with visibility more generally—in ways that engage and disrupt the easy categories and genres that have characterized the field to date. Contributors pose new questions concerning the instability of the identity photograph in South Africa; ethnographic photographs as potential history; humanitarian discourse from the perspective of photographic survivors of atrocity photojournalism; the nuanced passage from studio to screen in postcolonial digital portraiture; and the burgeoning visual activism in West Africa. As the contributors show, photography is itself a historical subject: it involves arrangement, financing, posture, positioning, and other kinds of work that are otherwise invisible. By moving us outside the frame of the photograph itself, by refusing to accept the photograph as the last word, this book makes photography an engaging and important subject of historical investigation. Ambivalent‘s contributors bring photography into conversation with orality, travel writing, ritual, psychoanalysis, and politics, with new approaches to questions of race, time, and postcolonial and decolonial histories. Contributors: George Emeka Agbo, Isabelle de Rezende, Jung Ran Forte, Ingrid Masondo, Phindi Mnyaka, Okechukwu Nwafor, Vilho Shigwedha, Napandulwe Shiweda, Drew Thompson
Statements Prepared for the Conference
A History of South Africa
Author: Leonard Monteath Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300065428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Reexamines the history of South Africa, traces the development of apartheid, and describes the anti-apartheid movement
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300065428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Reexamines the history of South Africa, traces the development of apartheid, and describes the anti-apartheid movement
A Fossil History of Southern African Land Mammals
Author: D. Margaret Avery
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108480888
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
A comprehensive reference on the taxonomy and distribution in time and space of all currently recognized southern African fossil mammals. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108480888
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
A comprehensive reference on the taxonomy and distribution in time and space of all currently recognized southern African fossil mammals. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.