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work_p7ack7fa45dm7libjrxqztbrku	Peter G. Ryan	Birders of Africa: History of a NetworkBirders of Africa: History of a Networkby Nancy J. Jacobs. 2016. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, USA. xiii + 325 pp., 16 color plates (a subset of the 48 black-and-white text figures). $85 (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-300-20961-7	2016.0	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1149	72	60	Birders of Africa: History of a Network FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa Birders of Africa: History of a Network by Nancy J. Africa's birds came to be known. distinct types of bird knowledge—vernacular, ornithological, and recreational—and book is how colonial ''ornithologists'' interacted with—and Africans who possessed vernacular knowledge of the region's birds. Chapter 1 deals with vernacular birding knowledge in Africa, starting from precolonial Several stories are related to mythological ''birds,'' but Jacobs is birds, and many of the author's inferences are based on the development of ornithology in southern Africa from distinction between recreational birders and ornithologists Chapter 7 investigates the role of African museum workers ornithology, and the growing role of recreational birding in the book, Jacobs recognizes three key interactions birds themselves, the book challenges one's views of the development of ornithology in Africa, and of the way	./cache/work_p7ack7fa45dm7libjrxqztbrku.pdf	./txt/work_p7ack7fa45dm7libjrxqztbrku.txt