Stations in the field : a history of place-based animal research, 1870-1930 / Raf de Bont.

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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.

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This volume studies the early history of field stations and the role these played in the rise of zoological place-based research in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century. It explores the material and social context in which field stations arose, the actual research that was produced in these places, the epistemic claims that were developed there, and the rhetoric strategies that were deployed to convince others these claims made sense. In short, it analyses the intricate activities that enabled the zoologist to perform science in the animal's natural habitat.

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May 06, 2016

Includes bibliographical references and index.