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The platypus and the mermaid, and other figments of the classifying imagination /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The platypus and the mermaid, and other figments of the classifying imagination /Harriet Ritvo.
Author:	Ritvo, Harriet,
Description:	xiv, 288 pages :illustrations ;24 cm
Subject:	1700-1899
Subject:	AnimalsClassificationHistory18th century.Great Britain
Subject:	Great BritainEconomic policy1979-1997.
ISBN:	0674673573

The platypus and the mermaid, and other figments of the classifying imagination /
Ritvo, Harriet,1946-

The platypus and the mermaid, and other figments of the classifying imagination /Harriet Ritvo. - xiv, 288 pages :illustrations ;24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-272) and index.

The point of order -- Flesh made word -- Barring the cross -- Out of bounds -- Matters of taste.

This book captures the fervor of the Victorian age for classifying and categorizing every new specimen, plant or animal, that British explorers and soldiers and sailors brought home. As she depicts a whole complex of competing groups deploying rival schemes and nomenclatures, Harriet Ritvo shows us a society drawing and redrawing its own boundaries and ultimately identifying itself. A thoroughly absorbing account of taxonomy - as zoological classification and as anthropological study - The Platypus and the Mermaid offers a new perspective on the constantly shifting, ever suggestive interactions of scientific lore, cultural ideas, and the popular imagination.

ISBN: 0674673573

LCCN: 97000405

Nat. Bib. No.: GB9839149bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 011971127UkSubjects--Chronological Terms:

1700-1899
Subjects--Topical Terms:

1007394
Animals
--History--Great Britain--18th century.--ClassificationSubjects--Geographical Terms:

381151
Great Britain
--Economic policy--1979-1997.Subjects--Index Terms:

Popular cultureIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

687869
Classification.

LC Class. No.: QL351 / .R57 1997

Dewey Class. No.: 590/.1/2

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