Stations in the field: A history of place-based animal research, 1870-1930
De Bont, R. (2015). Stations in the field: A history of place-based animal research, 1870-1930. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago and London. ISBN 978-0-226-14206-7. 274 pp. | |
| Available in | Author | VLIZ: Personal and Institutional Histories [104945] |
| Content | - De Bont, R. (2015). Brussels: Fieldwork in a metropolitan museum, in: De Bont, R. Stations in the field: A history of place-based animal research, 1870-1930. pp. 175-197, more
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| Abstract | When we think of sites of animal research that symbolize modernity, the first places that come to mind are grand research institutes in cities and near universities that house the latest in equipment and technologies, not the surroundings of the bird’s nest, the octopus’s garden in the sea, or the parts of inland lakes in which freshwater plankton reside. Yet during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a group of zoologists began establishing novel, indeed modern ways of studying nature, propagating what present-day ecologists describe as place-based research. |
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