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• Title:Scientists and scholars in the field : studies in the history of fieldwork and expeditions / edited by Kristian H. Nielsen, Michael Harbsmeier & Christopher J. Ries.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Nielsen, Kristian Hvidtfelt, 1968-
  Harbsmeier, Michael, 1951-
  Ries, Christopher Jacob, 1963-
  
• Published/Created:Aarhus : Aarhus University Press ; Bristol, CT : ISD [U.S.? distributor], ©2012.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: Q181 .S385 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 09-15-2024
    
  • Links:Donor bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Scientific expeditions.
  Scientific expeditions--History.
  Research--Fieldwork.
  Research--Fieldwork--History.
  
• Description:476 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
  
• Summary: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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9788771240146
  8771240144
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Studying Scientists and Scholars in the Field An Introduction / Christopher J. Ries
  Fieldwork avant la lettre Practicing Instructions in the Eighteenth Century / Michael Harbsmeier
  Surveying the Field of State Territory / Jeppe Strandsbjerg
  Subterranean Fieldwork Marsili's Survey on the Biogeography and Ecobiology of Truffles in Eighteenth Century North and Central Italy / Rengenier Rittersma
  Exploring the Republic of Letters German Travellers in the Dutch Underground, 1690-1720 / Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen
  Civil-Military Enlightenment in Britain Links between the Royal Society of London and the British Military, 1761-1790 / Daniel E. Clinkman
  Entangled Experiences, Disentangling Disciplines Antoine and Arnauld d'Abbadie's Voyages in Ethiopia / Anke Fischer-Kattner
  Explorer-Engineers Take the Field Imperial Engineers, Africa, and the Late Victorian Public / Casper Andersen
  From Collection to Fieldwork The Field Research of Danish Folklorist Evald Tang Kristensen, 1810-1890 / Palle O. Christiansen
  Field Life in the American West Surveys, Networks, Stations, and Quarries / Jeremy Vetter
  Before Creation Competing Excavators, Imperial Interests, and the Making of the Indus Civilization in 1920s India / Neha Gupta
  Rolling Field Station Danish Explorations of Central Asia in the Late Nineteenth Century / Esther Fihl
  Exploring the Disciplinary Significance of Fieldwork Methods A Case from the History of Swiss Anthropology / Serge Reubi
  Armchairs, Dogsleds, Ships, and Airplanes Field Access, Scientific Credibility, and Geological Mapping in Northern and North-Eastern Greenland 1900-1939 / Christopher J. Ries
  Expedition "Live" Science, Media, and Politics on the Galathea 3 Expedition 2006-2007 / Kristian H. Nielsen
  Swedish Taxonomy Initiative Managing the Boundaries of "Sweden" and "Taxonomy" / Jenny Beckmann
  Ethnographic Expedition 2.0 Resurrecting the Expedition as a Social Scientific Research Method / Morten Axel Pedersen
  Field/Map A Historiographic Review and Reconsideration / Matthew Edney.