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9788771240146: Scientists & Scholars in the Field: Studies in the History of Fieldwork & Expeditions
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ISBN 10: 8771240144 ISBN 13: 9788771240146
Editorial: Aarhus University Press, 2012

Sinopsis

For centuries the practice of undertaking fieldwork and expeditions has been adopted as an essential part of research by scientists and scholars from diverse disciplines. As a method of collecting on-site data through observation, the practice is shared by disciplines ranging from biology and botany, through geology, geography, and archaeology to anthropology, linguistics, and folklore studies. Presenting 17 essays by 17 scholars from almost as many disciplines of knowledge, this volume contains a rich tapestry of stories from -- and about -- 'the field', from early modern times until the present day. Taking us around the globe, from Europe to Asia, from the Arctic to Africa and America, this book investigates the entanglement of scientific, political, social, cultural, and personal interests and agendas that have shaped, and still shape, our effort to explore, explain, and exploit the world.

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Críticas

"As a kind of scholarly expedition through time and space, [this volume] encourages movement through multiple perspectives on, and approaches to, the history of the practices of science in the field. And the reader, helped by these diverse cartographies of discrete scholarly territories, gets a better sense of the size and qualities of the very big object that fieldwork is." -- Jean-Baptiste Gouyon, The British Journal for the History of Science

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For centuries the practice of undertaking fieldwork and expeditions has been adopted as an essential part of research by scientists and scholars from diverse disciplines. As a method of collecting on-site data through observation, the practice is shared by disciplines ranging from biology and botany, through geology, geography, and archaeology to anthropology, linguistics, and folklore studies. Presenting 17 essays by 17 scholars from almost as many disciplines of knowledge, this volume contains a rich tapestry of stories from - and about - 'the field', from early modern times until the present day. Taking us around the globe, from Europe to Asia, from the Arctic to Africa and America, this book investigates the entanglement of scientific, political, social, cultural, and personal interests and agendas that have shaped, and still shape, our effort to explore, explain, and exploit the world.

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Editorial
Aarhus University Press
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
8771240144
ISBN 13 
9788771240146
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
475
Editor
Nielsen Kristian Hvidtfelt, Harbsmeier Michael, Ries Christopher J
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

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