Birds and Humans - Ruth H Finnegan

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Résumé :
THIRD EDITION January 2023 BIRDS AND HUMANS: WHO ARE WE ? In Birds and Humans, Ruth Finnegan unveils the profound connection between two of Earth's most remarkable species, blending captivating stories and insights to reveal how birds have inspired human art, culture, and imagination for millennia. This is a celebration of nature's wisdom and our shared responsibility to cherish it. From the melodies of birdsong to the marvels of flight, Birds and Humans by Ruth Finnegan reveals the profound connections between two extraordinary species. This captivating exploration delves into the intelligence, creativity, and cultural significance of birds, uncovering how their lives mirror and inspire our own. Through engaging storytelling and cutting-edge research, discover how birds navigate vast distances, craft tools, and communicate with complexity and purpose. Journey through myths, legends, and scientific discoveries to see how birds have shaped human music, art, and imagination while offering valuable lessons in resilience and adaptability. The book weaves evolution, behaviour, music, art, intelligence, and ethics into a single, readable narrative gives the book a rare quality: it invites wonder while also challenging one of our most comfortable assumptions, that humans sit at the top of the ladder. Rich with vivid anecdotes and heartfelt insights, Birds and Humans celebrates the beauty and wisdom of these parallel species, reminding us of our shared responsibility to cherish and protect the planet we call home. For anyone captivated by the natural world, this book offers a powerful tribute to the enduring bond between birds and humans. David Campbell Callender is a pen name of the anthropologist Ruth Finnegan....

Biographie:
David Campbell Callender is the pen name of Ruth Finnegan. Ruth was born on the last day of 1933 in Derry, Northern Ireland, the eldest child of Dr Thomas Finnegan, Professor of Classics and President of Magee College and Agnes Finnegan n?e Campbell, teacher and writer. Largely brought up in Derry, she spent most of the war years in Donegal, 13 months of it in a small cottage in a 'gentle' (faerie) wood, an experience vividly described in her mother's entrancing 'Reaching for the Fruit' and her own semi-autobiographical novel, 'Black Inked Pearl'. This had a lasting influence on her life. In order to avoid an upbringing tainted by Ulster religious divisions, on their return to Derry in 1945 her parents sent her to a Quaker school in York (the Mount) where the experience of memorising and repeating daily 'texts' from the Bible and other literature, shaped much of her future writing, most directly in her monograph Why do we quote? and her novel Black Inked Pearl.This was followed by four joyous years (1952-56) at Somerville College Oxford, again reflected in the novel, in the delightful study of classics (a degree that then combined literature, history and philosophy), ending, to her amazement, with one of the best classics firsts of her year. After two years teaching (and repaying her student debt) at the leading public school Malvern Girls College (now Malvern St James) she decided to return to the intellectual life but this time, much though she would always love the Greek and Roman cultures, to follow her instinct, honed partly by her anti-colonialist and broadly left-wing stance, to widen her study to include learning about other cultures .She chose to focus on Africa, and completed first the postgraduate Oxford Diploma and B.Litt in Anthropology, then fieldwork (1960-61, 1963-4) on story telling among the Limba speakers of Northern Sierra Leone (her manuscript field notes are deposited in the archives of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)...

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THIRD EDITION January 2023 BIRDS AND HUMANS: WHO ARE WE ? In Birds and Humans, Ruth Finnegan unveils the profound connection between two of Earth's most remarkable species, blending captivating stories and insights to reveal how birds have inspired human art, culture, and imagination for millennia. This is a celebration of nature's wisdom and our shared responsibility to cherish it. From the melodies of birdsong to the marvels of flight, Birds and Humans by Ruth Finnegan reveals the profound connections between two extraordinary species. This captivating exploration delves into the intelligence, creativity, and cultural significance of birds, uncovering how their lives mirror and inspire our own. Through engaging storytelling and cutting-edge research, discover how birds navigate vast distances, craft tools, and communicate with complexity and purpose. Journey through myths, legends, and scientific discoveries to see how birds have shaped human music, art, and imagination while offering valuable lessons in resilience and adaptability. The book weaves evolution, behaviour, music, art, intelligence, and ethics into a single, readable narrative gives the book a rare quality: it invites wonder while also challenging one of our most comfortable assumptions, that humans sit at the top of the ladder. Rich with vivid anecdotes and heartfelt insights, Birds and Humans celebrates the beauty and wisdom of these parallel species, reminding us of our shared responsibility to cherish and protect the planet we call home. For anyone captivated by the natural world, this book offers a powerful tribute to the enduring bond between birds and humans. David Campbell Callender is a pen name of the anthropologist Ruth Finnegan....