Book ID: CBB193360621

Belonging on an Island: Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai‘i (2018)

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Lewis, Daniel (Author)


Yale University Press


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 320 pages
Language: English

A lively, rich natural history of Hawaiian birds that challenges existing ideas about what constitutes biocultural nativeness and belonging This natural history takes readers on a thousand-year journey as it explores the Hawaiian Islands’ beautiful birds and a variety of topics including extinction, evolution, survival, conservationists and their work, and, most significantly, the concept of belonging. Author Daniel Lewis, an award-winning historian and globe-traveling amateur birder, builds this lively text around the stories of four species—the Stumbling Moa-Nalo, the Kaua‘I ‘O‘o, the Palila, and the Japanese White-Eye. Lewis offers innovative ways to think about what it means to be native and proposes new definitions that apply to people as well as to birds. Being native, he argues, is a relative state influenced by factors including the passage of time, charisma, scarcity, utility to others, short-term evolutionary processes, and changing relationships with other organisms. This book also describes how bird conservation started in Hawai‘i, and the naturalists and environmentalists who did extraordinary work.

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Authors & Contributors
Birkhead, T. R.
Baozhu Hu
Culver, Annika A.
Martin A. Sidor
Robert P. Prŷs-Jones
Peter B. Logan
Concepts
Ornithology
Birds
Zoology
Conservation biology
Taxidermy
Extinction (biology)
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
Medieval
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
United States
New Zealand
South Asia
London (England)
Americas
North America
Institutions
Natural History Museum (London, England)
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