Ornithophilia: thoughts on geography in birding.(Report): An article from: The Geographical Review
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Author(s)Mark Bonta
PublisherAmerican Geographical Society
ISBN / ASINB003SVQGQ0
ISBN-13978B003SVQGQ9
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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on April 1, 2010. The length of the article is 6346 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the author: The deeper motives of bird-watchers have rarely been subjected to geographical inquiry. Birders are sometimes dismissed as hobbyists bent on compensating for feelings of inadequacy and lack of control in their personal lives. In this article, utilizing textual references as well as experiences from my own participant-observer status as geographer-cumbirder and bird-tour leader, I construct a geographically oriented approach to understanding the fascinations of bird-watching. I detail ethnographically the annual Christmas Bird Count and a bird walk in the Honduran rain forest. Then, drawing from the nest-as-home metaphors of Gaston Bachelard and the "becoming-bird" relationships suggested by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, I position birding as extraordinarily intimate exploration of place, reinforced by anticipation, repetition, experience of beauty, and the culminating encounter of human self, bird or bird spectacle, and landscape. Keywords: becoming-bird, birding, bird-watching, Gilles Deleuze, geography of birding, Fdix Guattari.
Citation Details
Title: Ornithophilia: thoughts on geography in birding.(Report)
Author: Mark Bonta
Publication:The Geographical Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2010
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 100 Issue: 2 Page: 139(13)
Article Type: Report
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
From the author: The deeper motives of bird-watchers have rarely been subjected to geographical inquiry. Birders are sometimes dismissed as hobbyists bent on compensating for feelings of inadequacy and lack of control in their personal lives. In this article, utilizing textual references as well as experiences from my own participant-observer status as geographer-cumbirder and bird-tour leader, I construct a geographically oriented approach to understanding the fascinations of bird-watching. I detail ethnographically the annual Christmas Bird Count and a bird walk in the Honduran rain forest. Then, drawing from the nest-as-home metaphors of Gaston Bachelard and the "becoming-bird" relationships suggested by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, I position birding as extraordinarily intimate exploration of place, reinforced by anticipation, repetition, experience of beauty, and the culminating encounter of human self, bird or bird spectacle, and landscape. Keywords: becoming-bird, birding, bird-watching, Gilles Deleuze, geography of birding, Fdix Guattari.
Citation Details
Title: Ornithophilia: thoughts on geography in birding.(Report)
Author: Mark Bonta
Publication:The Geographical Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2010
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 100 Issue: 2 Page: 139(13)
Article Type: Report
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
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