Situated Nature

2022 Special Issue

Edited by Déborah Dubald and Catarina Madruga

Image: Dupressoir (lithography) and Rugendas (illustration), "Valparaiso", in Claudio Gay Historia física y politica de Chile, 1845-54. Credits : Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle.

This engraving from Claude Gay's Historia de Chile, which is discussed in the article of Daniela Serra, is a striking example of the romanticised perceptions of fieldwork that are discussed in this special issue.

Collection Articles

Introduction. Situated Nature: Field Collecting and Local Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century

Déborah Dubald, Catarina Madruga

Science Education and Bureaucratization of Fieldwork Creating a Geological Collection in Nineteenth-Century Serbia

Dejan Lukic

A Naturalist between Two Worlds Field Collecting in Claude Gay’s Forging of a Scientific Career in Chile and France

Daniela Serra

Off the Beaten Path?Frédéric Cailliaud’s Bureaucratic Practice of Geological Fieldwork in the Lower Loire, 1836-1869

Déborah Dubald

Trementinaires. Gender, Collecting, and Subsistence in the Pyrenees

Elisa Garrido

‘We the Tormentors.’ Death, Emotions, and Gender in the Life and Work of the Entomologist Margaret Fountaine

Leore Joanne Green

Dining on Geologic Fish Claiming the Australian Ceratodus for Science

Vanessa Finney

“Authentic provenance.” Locality and Colonial Collecting for the Lisbon Zoological Museum, 1860s-1880s

Catarina Madruga

Afterword. Hacking's Glyptodon

James A. Secord