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Explorers House: National Geographic and the World It Made
by Robert M. Poole
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with references to "National Geographic".
Excerpt - on Page 26: "
... It was in the old explorer's house that the National Geographic Society was born on January 13, 18 The event launched one of the most successful and influential enterprises of modern ... "
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National Geographic, Alexander Graham Bell, Melville Grosvenor, New York, Bert Grosvenor, Gil Grosvenor, Bill Garrett, United States, North Pole, Mabel Bell, Mel Payne, geographic society
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Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science
by Donna J Haraway
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with references to "National Geographic".
Excerpt - on Page 14: "
... " focused on museum taxidermy and collecting safaris in colonial Africa, and "Apes in Eden, Apes in Space," examining National Geographic television specials in the context of the space race and decolonization. Primatologists might be most intrigued initially by the account ... "
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Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: A Reader (Social Archaeology)
by Robert W. Preucel
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with references to "National Geographic".
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... study, Gero and Root (chapter 20) have examined the ways in which women are represented in the pages of the National Geographic. They find that women are rarely depicted, but in those cases where they are shown they are depicted as passive ... "
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New York, Upper Palaeolithic, Cambridge University Press, National Geographic, Bronze Age, Academic Press, okiye win, tribal bones, colonialist archaeology, symbolic entrainment, piedmont strip, task differentiation framework
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Primate Encounters: Models of Science, Gender, and Society
by Shirley C. Strum
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Excerpt - on Page 62: "
... Further input affecting the popularity of primates came from "Leakey's ape girls," via National Geographic-sponsored films. Fossey, Galdikas, and Goodall were/are excellent and patient observers, and they have each made critically important contributions to our ... "
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National Geographic, Jane Goodall, Thelma Rowell, North American, New World, Dian Fossey, indirect female choice, langur society, mediation nexus, boring sheep, anthropological primatologists, ideas about primates
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