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A review by fracturing
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think by Jennifer Ackerman
4.0
I learned so much from this book! And I took it on a weeklong camping vacation to Maine with my family and wouldn’t stop peppering them with Bird Facts and they couldn’t get away from me! So now we’ve all learned so much! Muahahah!!
I just occasionally kind of got a weird colonizer vibe from this.... Like sometimes I’d end up picturing a bunch of white people crashing around in the jungle and trying to document stuff that indigenous people have always known and would’ve happily told them if they asked?
Idk I recently watched some documentary about a photography team filming mating dances of birds of paradise and it got me feeling some sort of Heart-of-Darkness kind of way. That plus recently finishing an Indigenous History of the US and I’m all on this super FCK THE COLONIZERS wavelength right now and I probably just projected it onto this.
But I’ve got a few quotes I highlighted that I’ll try to remember to come back and put in here one day so you see what I’m talking about. Maybe.
I just occasionally kind of got a weird colonizer vibe from this.... Like sometimes I’d end up picturing a bunch of white people crashing around in the jungle and trying to document stuff that indigenous people have always known and would’ve happily told them if they asked?
Idk I recently watched some documentary about a photography team filming mating dances of birds of paradise and it got me feeling some sort of Heart-of-Darkness kind of way. That plus recently finishing an Indigenous History of the US and I’m all on this super FCK THE COLONIZERS wavelength right now and I probably just projected it onto this.
But I’ve got a few quotes I highlighted that I’ll try to remember to come back and put in here one day so you see what I’m talking about. Maybe.