“Michael R. Dove brilliantly extracts the threads that both connect
and separate natural histories, bringing to life their intellectual
currents and legacies. This is a startlingly original book by one
of the world’s leading anthropologists.”—J. Stephen Lansing,
coauthor of Islands of Order: A Guide to Complexity Modeling
for the Social Sciences
“Michael R. Dove presents an elegant, erudite, and thoroughly
engaging book about the field of natural history. His goal is
nothing less than healing the modern breach between natural history
and natural science.”—James Gustave Speth, former dean, Yale School
of the Environment, and former administrator, United Nations
Development Programme
“An enchanting account of the research and storytelling practices
of four eminent natural historians across the last three centuries.
Michael Dove shows us how a curiosity that ranges from folk tales
to botany, from trade to digging sticks, is invaluable in an era of
global environmental change and distrust in science.”—Andrew S.
Mathews, author of Trees are Shapeshifters: How Cultivation,
Climate Change and Disaster Create Landscapes
“Michael Dove shows that natural history has its own history—a
history of attentive listening that bridges deep divides. By
showing how naturalists and Indigenous Peoples developed spaces of
knowledge exchange, he helps us find ways to create such spaces in
our own times, when they are urgently needed.”—Ben Orlove, author
of Darkening Peaks: Glacier Retreat, Science, and Society
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