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Wildlife watching --- Nature observation

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Photography of animals. --- Animals --- Wildlife watching --- Nature observation

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Les mots nous manquent pour dire le plus banal des paysages. Vite à court de phrases, nous sommes incapables de faire le portrait d’une orée. Un pré, déjà, nous met à la peine, que grêlent l’aigremoine, le cirse et l’ancolie. Il n’en a pourtant pas toujours été ainsi. Au temps de Goethe et de Humboldt, le rêve d’une « histoire naturelle » attentive à tous les êtres, sans restriction ni distinction aucune, s’autorisait des forces combinées de la science et de la littérature pour élever la « peinture de paysage » au rang d’un savoir crucial. La galaxie et le lichen, l’enfant et le papillon voisinaient alors en paix dans un même récit. Ce n’est pas que l’homme comptait peu : c’est que tout comptait infiniment. Des croquis d’Alfred Wallace aux « proêmes » de Francis Ponge, des bestiaires de William Swainson aux sonnets de Rainer Maria Rilke, ce livre donne à entendre le chant, aussi tenace que ténu, d’un très ancien savoir sur le monde – un savoir qui répertorie les êtres par concordances de teintes et de textures, compose avec leurs lueurs des dictionnaires éphémères, s’abîme et s’apaise dans le spectacle de leurs métamorphoses.

Nature (Aesthetics) --- Nature in art --- Nature in literature --- Philosophy of nature in literature --- Nature observation

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Context and situation always matter in both human and animal lives. Unique insights can be gleaned from conducting scientific studies from within human communities and animal habitats. Inside Science is a novel treatment of this distinctive mode of fieldwork. Robert E. Kohler illuminates these resident practices through close analyses of classic studies: of Trobriand Islanders, Chicago hobos, corner boys in Boston’s North End, Jane Goodall’s chimpanzees of the Gombe Stream Reserve, and more. Intensive firsthand observation; a preference for generalizing from observed particulars, rather than from universal principles; and an ultimate framing of their results in narrative form characterize these inside stories from the field. Resident observing takes place across a range of sciences, from anthropology and sociology to primatology, wildlife ecology, and beyond. What makes it special, Kohler argues, is the direct access it affords scientists to the contexts in which their subjects live and act. These scientists understand their subjects not by keeping their distance but by living among them and engaging with them in ways large and small. This approach also demonstrates how science and everyday life—often assumed to be different and separate ways of knowing—are in fact overlapping aspects of the human experience. This story-driven exploration is perfect for historians, sociologists, and philosophers who want to know how scientists go about making robust knowledge of nature and society.

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