"Surgical And Rigorous (Yet Always Fun)": Science, Sport, And Community In American Birding, 1950-1980
This dissertation examines how birders in the mid-20th century created an institutional culture and national community autonomous from ornithology, working to define birding as an activity which blended practices and ideas from science and sport. The negotiations over the relative prominence of scie...
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W&M ScholarWorks
2020
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1593091764 https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6860&context=etd |