Titlebook: Shaping Natural History and Settler Society; Mary Elizabeth Barbe Tanja Hammel Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Auth

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Gender, Class and Competitionn which, in turn, led to her misrecognition. Metropolitan scientists belittled the colonial sources of the knowledge that they reproduced rather than produced. The chapter draws out the intricate mechanisms of recognition and exclusion, showing both the capital Barber had at hand as well as her constraints.

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Proving and Circulating the Theory of Natural Selectiontributed to them—in Barber’s case by providing corroborative evidence for natural selection, the principle of Batesian mimicry and sexual selection. The chapter does away with any notion of science as a product of individual genius, but links it to broader networks of collaboration and contestation.

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Arguing with Artefacts, Biofacts and Organisms: Barber’s Advocacy for 1820 Settlers’ Supremacy and Lority and would draw analogies between hierarchies among insects, animals and plants and those she claimed to exist among human beings, that is African, Afrikaner and other settler groups. It is shown how archaeological finds were used to claim white ancestry and reinforce belonging in the Cape.

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African Farmers and Medicinal Plant Expertse nutritional, medicinal and veterinarian potentials of plants and were heavily dependent on African wagon drivers. Through the course of time, such aspects of emulation and collaboration would give way to much more rigid divisions. Insights are also provided into how knowledge was shared or co-produced and the limitations involved..

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Barber’s Forging Scientific Practices and Theoriesconfirm Northern theories, but forged her very own. The last section discusses the naming of butterflies after Xhosa chiefs as a case of ‘visible concealing’—a concept to describe how making visible can at the same time be a method of concealment.

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Introduction,sh-born settler scientist produced from the 1840s to the 1880s and the insights we gain into knowledge production in a settler colony. This chapter is an overview of the research fields: the social history of knowledge and science and white women in the historiography of science in a (settler) colon

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African Farmers and Medicinal Plant Experts/illustrations, carefully assessing their unwieldy dimensions which convey more than their producer could control. Such sources offer insights into how tacit African knowledge (agriculture, nutrition, medicine) was crucial for the survival of settlers/colonisers. The Bowker/Barber family at first re