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Traces of the animal past : methodological challenges in animal history

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25705
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta, Canada : University of Calgary Press
Call Number
04.2 B64t
Responsibility
Edited by Jennifer Bonnell and Sean Kheraj
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta, Canada : University of Calgary Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
vii, 419 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Zoology
Animals
History
Research
Abstract
Leading scholars in animal history confront key questions of how we can know and understand the more-than-human past, showcasing the innovative methods historians use to discover and explain how animals fit into our collective histories. Understanding the relationships between humans and animals is essential to a full understanding of both our present and our shared past. Across the humanities and social sciences, researchers have embraced the 'animal turn,' a multispecies approach to scholarship, with historians at the forefront of new research in human-animal studies that blends traditional research methods with interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks that decenter humans in historical narratives. These exciting approaches come with core methodological challenges for scholars seeking to better understand the past from non-anthropocentric perspectives. Whether in a large public archive, a small private collection, or the oral histories of living memories, stories of animals are mediated by the humans who have inscribed the records and organized archival collections. In oral histories, the place of animals in the past are further refracted by the frailty of human memory and recollection. Only traces remain for researchers to read and interpret. Bringing together seventeen original essays by a leading group of international scholars, Traces of the Animal Past showcases the innovative methods historians use to unearth and explain how animals fit into our collective histories. Situating the historian within the narrative, bringing transparency to methodological processes, and reflecting on the processes and procedures of current research, this book presents new approaches and new directions for a maturing field of historical inquiry.-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction: traces of the animal past / Bonnell, Jennifer and Kheraj, Sean -- PART I: EMBODIED HISTORIES -- Kicking over the traces? freeing the animal from the archive / Swart, Sandra -- Occupational hazards: honeybee labour as an interpretive device in animal history / Bonnell, Jennifer -- Hearing history through hoofbeats: exploring equine volition and voice in the archive / Stallones Marshall, Lindsay -- PART II: TRACES -- Who is greyhound? reflections on the non-human digital archive / Nance, Susan -- Accessing animal health knowledge: popular educators and veterinary science in rural Ontario / Hodgins, Jody -- Animal Cruelty, metaphoric narrative, and the hudson's bay company, 1919-1939 / Colpitts, George -- PART III: THE UNKNOWABLE ANIMAL -- Vanishing flies and the lady entomologist / McNeur, Catherine -- Guinea Pig agnotology / Dean, Joanna -- Tuffy's cold war: science, memory, and the US navy's dolphin / Colby, Jason M. -- The elephant in the archive / Rothfels, Nigel -- PART IV: SPATIAL SOURCES AND ANIMAL MOVEMENT -- Making tracks: a grizzly and entangled history / Campbell, Colleen and Loo, Tina -- Spatial analysis and digital urban animal history / Kheraj, Sean -- Visualizing the animal city: digital experiments in animal history / Robichaud, Andrew -- What's guanaco? tracing the llama diaspora through and beyond South America / Wakild, Emily -- PART V: LOOKING AT ANIMALS -- Hidden in plain sight: how art and visual culture can help us think about animal histories / Cronin, J. Keri -- Creatures on display: making an animal exhibit at the archives of Ontario / Young, Jay -- Portraits of extinction: encountering bluebuck narratives in the natural history museum / Jørgensen, Dolly -- Epilogue: combinations and conjunction / Ritvo, Harriet
ISBN
9781773853840
Accession Number
P2023.07
Call Number
04.2 B64t
Collection
Archives Library
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Cascadia field guide : art, ecology, poetry

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26219
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Publisher
Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
Call Number
04 B73c
Responsibility
Edited by Elizabeth Bradfield, CMarie Fuhrman, Derek Sheffield
Publisher
Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
396 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Poetry
Nature
Literature
Botany
Zoology
Writing
Abstract
A literary field guide of art, poetry, and natural history for 128 of the Beings that live in the thirteen biogregions that make up Cascadia, a region that ranges from southeast Alaska to northern California and from the Pacific coast to the Continental Divide"-- Provided by publisher."Through engaging natural history, poetry, and art, Cascadia Field Guide celebrates [more than 120 beings in the Cascadia region], exploring how they interconnect. It's a useful guide to understanding behavior, appearance, and adaptation, as well as an inspirational anthology - a book that embraces science, while appealing to the mind and heart. This is a guide to be savored and treasured, bringing an imaginative perspective to our "known" natural world"....Also featured is a diverse community of regional voices - more than 100 poets and writers, along with fourteen artists, who speak for, and with, the natural world: Colleen J. McElroy, Theodore Roethke, Rena Priest, David James Duncan, Claudia Castro Luna, Tess Gallgher, Ursula K. Le Guin, Brian Doyle, Chris Dombrowski, Kim Heacox, Claire Emery, Joe Feddersen, Raya Friday, and more. -- From interior
ISBN
9781680516227
Accession Number
P2024.01
Call Number
04 B73c
Collection
Archives Library
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The mammals of Banff National Park, Alberta

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19893
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1958
Author
Banfield, A.W.F.
Publisher
Ottawa, ON : The Queen's Printer
Call Number
04.2 B22m PAM
Author
Banfield, A.W.F.
Responsibility
A.W.F. Banfield
Publisher
Ottawa, ON : The Queen's Printer
Published Date
1958
Physical Description
51 pg.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Zoology
Zoology--Alberta
Banff National Park
Abstract
Pertains to the comprehensive analysis and annotated list of the mammal species present in Banff National Park. The book explores topics such as climate, vegetation, geology and zoogeography in an effort to provide both context and critical information regarding animal life. Additionally, the book contains an annotated list pertaining to each mammal, their scientific name, and additional relevant information. Upon reading this book, the reader is granted a complete understanding of the wildlife presence in Banff National Park at the time of publication (1958).
Contents
Introduction (pg. 1)
Geology (pg. 1)
Climate (pg. 2)
Vegetation (pg. 2)
History of exploration (pg. 3)
Present investigation (pg. 4)
Zoogeography (pg. 5)
Treatment (pg. 8)
Annotated list (pg. 9)
References (pg. 49)
Index (pg. 53) Maps:
Distribution of Chipmunks in the Park (pg. 16)
Winter distribution of Wapiti in the Park (pg. 32)
Summer distribution of White-tailed Deer in the Park (pg. 37)
Distribution of Mountain Goats in the Park (pg. 40)
Summer and winter distribution of Mounain Sheep in the Park (pg. 44)
Accession Number
2017.8683
Call Number
04.2 B22m PAM
Collection
Archives Library
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For the love of nature : mammals described and illustrated by the naturalists Gerald E.H., Barrett-Hamilton & Edward Adrian Wilson

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20141
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2008
Author
Hollenberg, Martin J.
Barrett-Hamilton, Gerald E.H.
Wilson, Edward Adrian
Publisher
Vancouver, BC : M.J. Hollenberg
Edition
Limited ed. of 400 copies (55/400)
Call Number
QL H65 F67
Author
Hollenberg, Martin J.
Barrett-Hamilton, Gerald E.H.
Wilson, Edward Adrian
Responsibility
Martin J. Hollenberg, Gerald E.H., Barrett-Hamilton, Edward Adrian Wilson
Edition
Limited ed. of 400 copies (55/400)
Publisher
Vancouver, BC : M.J. Hollenberg
Published Date
2008
Physical Description
xiii, 187 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Art
Mammals
Zoology
Travel
Naturalists
Contents
The Irish naturalist Gerald E.H. Barrett-Hamilton : his life and contributions to science -- Descriptions of mammals from Barrett-Hamilton's A history of British mammals, paired with drawings and paintings by Edward Adrian Wilson -- Edward Adrian Wilson : his outstanding career as a naturalist and artist -- The naturalists and the advances of science -- Appendix I. Gerald Barrett-Hamilton's South Georgia journal -- Appendix II. Letters from South Georgia from G.E.H. Barrett-Hamilton to Sir Sidney Frederic Harmer -- Appendix III. Selected remembrances.
Notes
Card from author removed from book and added to AC637 archival materials
ISBN
9871553831877
Accession Number
AC637
Call Number
QL H65 F67
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Skoki : the long and longer life of a marvelous bear - 33 years this coming winter

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25217
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
2020
Author
Campbell, Colleen
Publisher
The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal
Call Number
P
  1 website  
Author
Campbell, Colleen
Responsibility
Colleen Campbell
Publisher
The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
pg. 16 - 18
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Wildlife
Wildlife management
Alberta
Bears
Bears, Grizzly
Zoology--Alberta
Zoology
Abstract
Pertains to the story of Skoki (GB#16) the grizzly bear who has resided at the Calgary Zoo since 1996 after his removal from Banff National Park at age eight due to human contact
Notes
In Wildlands Advocate, Vol. 28, No.3, September 2020
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Digital copy available
Websites
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Hinterland who's who

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25097
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1973-1974
Author
Canadian Wildlife Service
Publisher
Ottawa : Canadian Wildlife Service
Call Number
04.2 C16h PAM
  1 website  
Author
Canadian Wildlife Service
Publisher
Ottawa : Canadian Wildlife Service
Published Date
1973-1974
Physical Description
11 volumes ; 2 pages ; illus. (b&w)
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Wildlife
Zoology
Education
Abstract
Hinterland Who’s Who published by the Canadian Wildlife service - two-page pamphlet with summary of various animals in Canada including photographs, range maps, footprint drawings
Contents
Wolf
Snowshoe hare
Chipmunk
Bat
Beaver
White-tailed deer
Mountain sheep
Moose
Caribou
Cougar
Muskrat
Notes
These are separate publications catalogued together
Issued under the authority of the Minister of the Environment
Accession Number
TBD
Call Number
04.2 C16h PAM
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Canadian Wildlife Federation website with additional Hinterland Who’s Who information including video
Websites
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Return of the bison : a story of survival, restoration, and a wilder world

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26218
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Author
Di Silvestro, Roger L.
Publisher
Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
Call Number
04.2 D54r
Author
Di Silvestro, Roger L.
Publisher
Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
254 pages : map ; 21 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Bison
Buffalo
Conservation
Environement
Zoology
Abstract
In less than a century, a bison population that once numbered in the millions and stretched across North America was reduced to just a few dozen animals primarily in Yellowstone National Park. DeSilvestro explores one of the greatest conservation comeback stories in American history-- yet its "success" is qualified. Most bison today live in commercial herds, contained like cattle. Are we willing to coexist with them as wild animals who need freedom to roam? -- Excerpt from back cover
Contents
In the beginning -- When science favors extinction -- Where buffalo roam, again: early restoration -- American bison step out of the ER -- Private herds : hopes, aspirations, roads to recovery -- Tribes : finding home -- Lost herds : Mexico and Canada -- The way of the wisent -- The last refuge -- Building a future for bison.
ISBN
9781680515831
Accession Number
P2024.01
Call Number
04.2 D54r
Collection
Archives Library
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Bear-ology : fascinating bear facts, tales and trivia

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15445
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2009
Author
Dolson, Sylvia
Publisher
Masonville, CO : PixyJack Press
Call Number
04.2 B32d
Author
Dolson, Sylvia
Publisher
Masonville, CO : PixyJack Press
Published Date
2009
Physical Description
191 p. : ill
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Bears
Zoology
Folklore
ISBN
9780977372454
Accession Number
2017.8669
Call Number
04.2 B32d
Collection
Archives Library
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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1988
Author
Stirling, Ian
Guravich, Dan
Publisher
Ann Arbor ; The University of Michigan Press
Call Number
QL S75 P66
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Author
Stirling, Ian
Guravich, Dan
Responsibility
Ian Stirling (author), Dan Guravich (photographer)
Publisher
Ann Arbor ; The University of Michigan Press
Published Date
1988
Physical Description
220 pages ; illustrations ; maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Bears
Zoology
Arctic
Arctic Regions
Wildlife
Abstract
Pertains to life of polar bears with photographs
Contents
Introduction
The First Polar Bears
The Original Polar Bear Watchers
How Do You Study a Polar Bear
Distribution and Abundance
Reproduction
Behavior
Life and Death
What Makes a Polar Bear Tick?
The Polar Bears of Churchill
Conflicts between Polar Bears and Humans
Conservation and Environmental Concerns
The Future
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
Notes
Signed by author and addressed to Margaret Gmoser - dated August 1989
ISBN
0472101005
Accession Number
AC637
Call Number
QL S75 P66
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
URL Notes
Author's profile on Polar Bears International website
Websites
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Rare air : endangered birds, bats, butterflies, & bees

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26220
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Author
Kaizar, Sarah and Meiser, A. Scott
Publisher
Seattle, Washington : Skipstone
Call Number
04.2 K12r
Author
Kaizar, Sarah and Meiser, A. Scott
Publisher
Seattle, Washington : Skipstone
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
149 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Zoology
Birds
Insects
Ecology
Environment
Abstract
Rare Air, the culmination of artist Sarah Kaizar's dedication to illustrating endangered fauna, features 66 endangered species of flight--33 birds, 5 bats, 12 bees, and 16 butterflies--presented in her scientifically accurate and utterly engaging pen-and-ink style. Complementing the art are informative and story-driven natural histories of each species by writer A. Scott Meiser, as well as interviews with biologists who are working to sustain some of the same species. An introduction highlights how Kaizar developed this project, while the "How to Get Involved" appendix provides helpful tips on actions readers can take to help these creatures. Kaizar's work informs readers about the world around them in a way that is beautiful and engaging, while also examining the environmental conditions that put these species at risk. Rare Air broadens the conversation about environmental study and inspires readers across the country to care for our winged creatures. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction : conservation on the wing -- Rare air species. Field feature : bird data : counts, migrations, trends -- Field feature : indigenous resource managements -- Field feature : bat conservation international -- Field feature : nurdle patrol -- Acknowledgments -- References -- How to get involved -- Species index.
ISBN
9781680515510
Accession Number
P2024.01
Call Number
04.2 K12r
Collection
Archives Library
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