Shaping Natural History and Settler Society
Subtitle: Mary Elizabeth Barber and the Nineteenth-Century Cape
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Aug 24, 2019
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9783030226381
Description: [E]xplores the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Barber, a British-born settler scientist who lived in the Cape during the nineteenth-century. It provides a lens into a range of subjects within the history of knowledge and science, gender and social history, postcolonial, critical heritage and archival studies. The book examines the international importance of a marginalized scientist, the instrumentalisation of science to settlers' political concerns and reveals the pivotal but largely silenced contribution of indigenous African experts. Including a variety of material, visual and textual sources, this study explores how these artefacts are archived in museums and critically analyses their content and silences. The book traces Barber's legacy across three continents, offering insights into the politics of memory and history-making--back cover.
Notes: Source title: Shaping Natural History and Settler Society: Mary Elizabeth Barber and the Nineteenth-Century Cape (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series)