Bushmen, Botany and Baking Bread: Mary Pocock's Record of a Journey With Dorothea Bleek Across Angola in 1925 - Couverture souple

 
9781920033309: Bushmen, Botany and Baking Bread: Mary Pocock's Record of a Journey With Dorothea Bleek Across Angola in 1925
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1920033300 ISBN 13 : 9781920033309
Editeur : Nisc (Pty) Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

Bushmen, Botany and Baking Bread: Mary Pocock's record of a journey with Dorothea Bleek across Angola in 1925 presents the record of a remarkable overland journey documented by the botanist Mary Agard Pocock and illustrated, in colour, with her photographs, sketches and paintings of southern Angola, its people and its plants. The purpose of the six-month-long expedition, by boat, on foot and by machila, was primarily for the renowned ethnologist Dorothea Bleek to collect ethnographic information of the last remaining Bushmen of the region. Besides her role as aide-de-camp, Mary Pocock's intention was to study the flora. She collected almost 1000 plant specimens from this virtually unexplored region, several of which proved to be new to science.

A talented artist and photographer, Pocock also described, painted and photographed Bushmen in their villages. These are unique and rare representations of daily activities such as spinning cotton, preparing food, forging metal, playing musical instruments and dancing. Her meticulous daily travel account, glass plate slides, negatives, sketches and paintings have now been rescued from oblivion and collated, edited and presented here for the first time.

Bushmen, Botany and Baking Bread will appeal to those interested in Bushmen ethnology, African botany, early 20th century African travel, and not least the significance of gender in scientific exploration of that era.

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À propos des auteurs

Tony Dold is a botanist and curator of the Selmar Schonland Herbarium where Pocock's Angolan archive is housed.

Jean Kelly, a former teacher, now living in Makhanda in retirement, voluntarily assists with curatorial work in the Selmar Schonland Herbarium.

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Éditeur
Nisc (Pty) Ltd
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1920033300
ISBN 13 
9781920033309
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
366
Éditeur
Dold Tony, Kelly Jean
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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