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Reassembling the Strange

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Reassembling the Strange

By Thomas Anderson

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This book examines how Westerners understood and processed Madagascar and its environment during the nineteenth century. Madagascar's unique ecosystem crafted its reputation as a strange place full of unusual species. Westerners, however, often minimized Madagascar's peculiar features to stress the commonality of its fauna and flora with the world. The attempt to understand the island through science led to a domestication of its environment that created the image of a tame and known world capab...Show more

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9781498576055

Publisher

Lexington Books

Published year

2018

Language

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1

Original title

Reassembling the Strange

Format

Hardcover

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