Diary of an oologist

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Description

"In 2019, Honours in Curatorship student Nathalie Viruly, who completed her Bachelor of Social Science in Politics and Sociology, was similarly struck by the silence and loss evoked by the [Peter Steyn] collection. Viruly honed in on the moments documented in the notebooks, which capture the loss of life in the reproductive life of these birds and reveal ‘stories of avian tragedy’: Young taken by predator; 1 young accidentally killed; 2 eggs failed to hatch; 2 infertile; Chick disappeared without a trace; Eggs disappeared; Literally cooked by the [corrugated] roof; Nest empty – egg collectors? (Viruly 2018: online). Her focus on these moments in the scientific journal poignantly reveals the conflation between science and emotion and invites the viewer to re-examine hierarchies of loss" (Liebenberg 2021: 219).

Access Rights

This collection remains locked and is only accessible with help from the Niven Library staff. The eggs cannot be handled or removed from their drawers. Furthermore, there is no collection manager to provide further information about the collection.

Curriculum

Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air See all items with this value

url

https://www.objectecologies.co.za/2019/university-of-cape-town/notebook-2-nest-records-mainly-eggs-in-drawer-3/

Creator

Peter Steyn See all items with this value

Date Created

2018

Source

Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Niven Library, UCT.

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Peter Steyn See all items with this value

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oology See all items with this value

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grief See all items with this value

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Honours in Curatorship See all items with this value

reproduction See all items with this value

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bird See all items with this value

notebook See all items with this value

infertile See all items with this value

accident See all items with this value

tragedy See all items with this value

sadness See all items with this value

hierarchy See all items with this value

heterarchy See all items with this value

emotion See all items with this value

science See all items with this value

medicine chest See all items with this value

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Type

Photo

Object

Contributor

Nina Liebenberg

Item sets

99_LBNNIN001

Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air

Site pages

Materials

The Medicine Chest

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