The Platypus and the Mermaid And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination |
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Author:
| Ritvo, Harriet |
Series title: | Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-674-67358-8 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1998 |
Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $65.95 |
Book Description:
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Capturing the fervor of the Victorian age for classifying and categorizing, Ritvo depicts a complex of competing groups--naturalists and zoologists, farmers and showmen, butchers and artists--deploying rival schemes to impose order on nature.
Capturing the fervor of the Victorian age for classifying and categorizing, Ritvo depicts a complex of competing groups--naturalists and zoologists, farmers and showmen, butchers and artists--deploying rival schemes to impose order on nature.