{"product_id":"wild-and-wonderful-by-vanessa-manceron-9781914363092","title":"Wild and Wonderful","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExamining social constructions and perceptions of nature.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eWild and Wonderful\u003c\/em\u003e, social anthropologist Vanessa Manceron investigates an understudied but indispensable scientific practice: getting to know and recognise the living worlds around us. Her research takes her to England, where a longstanding naturalist tradition brings together professionals, academics, and amateurs to study the world around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eObserving the natural world here is regarded not as a simple hobby, but as a necessary activity. This is participatory science, an itinerant brand of scholarship that immerses itself in a specific and delimited territory, meticulously documenting the species living there and how they develop and expand their domain or regress and disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eManceron leads us through woods and fields, showing us another way of looking, of paying attention to minute differences, sounds, and variations of colour. Her book is both a contribution to the anthropology of science and an opportunity to take a fresh look at our relationship with nature, affording us a glimpse of another way of living and living with.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47537488101612,"sku":"9781914363092","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781914363092-wild-and-wonderful.jpg?v=1776396728","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/wild-and-wonderful-by-vanessa-manceron-9781914363092","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}