| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
'A Creed for Bird watching': Bird Study and the New Bird Science -- A Nation of Bird watchers? The Rise of Recreational Bird watching -- 'A Close-up View of Birds': Nature Reserves, Conservation and Watching Birds -- Landscapes of Loss: Wild Birds and Environmental Crisis -- Wildfowling and Sporting Naturalism -- 'Princes of the Air': Falconry and the Lure of Birds of Prey -- Harvesting the Sea and the Air: Food Customs and Wild Birds. |
| Summary |
"Whether as sources of joy and pleasure to be fed, counted, and watched, as objects of sport to be hunted and killed, or as food to be harvested, wild birds evoke strong feelings. Sean Nixon traces the transformation of these human passions for wild birds from the early twentieth century through the 1970s, detailing humans' close encounters with wild birds in Britain and the wider North Atlantic world. Drawing on a rich range of written sources, Passions for Birds reveals how emotional, subjective, and material attachments to wild birds were forged through a period of pronounced social and cultural change. Nixon demonstrates how, for all their differences, new traditions in birdwatching and conservation, field sports, and bird harvesting mobilized remarkably similar feelings towards birds. Striking similarities also emerged in the material forms that each of these practices used to bring birds closer to people--hides and traps, nets and ropes, and binoculars. Wide ranging in scope, Passions for Birds sheds new light on the ways in which wild birds helped shape humans throughout the twentieth century, as well as how birds themselves became burdened with multiple cultural meanings and social anxieties over time."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Birds -- Social aspects.
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Human-animal relationships.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. |
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Birds -- Social aspects. |
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Human-animal relationships. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Nixon, Sean, 1966- Passions for birds. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022 0228010454 9780228010456 (OCoLC)1280600598 |
| ISBN |
9780228010470 electronic book |
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0228010470 electronic book |
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9780228010463 electronic book |
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0228010462 electronic book |
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