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The Platypus and the Mermaid And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination
by [Ritvo, Harriet]
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This book captures the fervor of the Victorian age for classifying and categorizing every new specimen, plant or animal, that British explorers and soldiers and sailors brought home. As she depicts a whole complex of competing groups deploying rival schemes and nomenclatures, Harriet Ritvo shows us a society drawing and redrawing its own boundaries and ultimately identifying itself. A thoroughly absorbing account of taxonomy - as zoological classification and as anthropological study - "The Platypus and the Mermaid" offers a new perspective on the constantly shifting, ever suggestive interactions of scientific lore, cultural ideas, and the popular imagination.
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- Harvard University Press Brand
- Oct 15, 1998 Pub Date:
- 9780674673588 ISBN-13:
- 0674673581 ISBN-10:
- 304.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 9.25 in * 0.76 in * 6.14 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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