Naming Nature: A Cabinet of Natural Curiosities for Word Lovers Brand / Dinosaur Designs these spectacular species were once

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shining a light on how history is so often hijacked to serve the ideological and political interests of the present

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Justine Kurland

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Naming Nature: A Cabinet of Natural Curiosities for Word Lovers Brand / Dinosaur Designs these spectacular species were onceFrom butterflies and hummingbirds to narwhal and leopards, Naming Nature celebrates our wondrous natural world by exploring the language we use to describe it. Take elephants, for instance. African languages often focus on the power of the animal; Tswana and Tsonga refer to the unstoppable one and Zulu one crashing through. In ancient European languages however, elephants were seen as commodities. When Homer and Hesiod wrote about elephas in the