Reading Nature, Observing Science: Examining Material Practices in the Lick Observatory Archives and Kenneth S. Norris Papers

Kenneth S. Norris Papers: Natural History in Practice

Natural history intro. In his book The Hawaiian Spinner Dolphin (1994), which Norris co-authored with Bernd Randall S. Wells, and Melandy , he defines their project as a work of natural history. Norris writes, "What we did [in The Hawaiian Spinner Dolphin] is what I call natural history. That is, we attempted to look at a single species from as many viewpoints as we could to contrive to understand what the totality of the dolphin's life is really like" (3).
How do different modes of observation influence natural history and its production of knowledge? In what ways are natural history knowledge formations shaped by Norris's layered practices of observation?

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