Femme Fatale Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari

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  • Hardcover
  • 9780060817282
  • 01 augustus 2007
  • 450 pagina's
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Pat Shipman

Dr. Shipman is an internationally-recognized expert in the taphonomy, the study of how living animals are transformed into skeletons and then fossils. Her research focuses on learning how to reconstruct the ecology of ancient environments from preserved fossils and how to determine whether the fossils in an assemblage are the remains of the activities of early human ancestors or not. She pioneered the use of scanning electron microscopy in diagnosing cutmarks on archaeological or fossil bones. Shipman's research as involved fossil and archaeological bone assemblages from Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Italy, France, Indonesia, and various sites in North and South America. She was part of the team that established convincing proof of cannibalism in Neolithic France and also identified the earliest known bone tools in the world. In recent years, she has written several books for general audiences. The topics include the history of anthropology and the discovery and interpretation of fossils. She is fascinated by the question: who makes discoveries and how they are interpreted? Why is one discovery widely accepted and another rejected? She has written three biographies: one of Eugene Dubois, the Dutch anatomist who discovered the "missing link"; one of Florence Baker, a Victorian lady who explored Africa searching for the source of the Nile; and one of Mata Hari, the infamous Oriental dancer and convicted World War I spy. She has also written popular books about Neandertals, race,Homo erectus, and the fossil ape, Proconsul. She plans to tackle the controversial questions about what makes us humans and what has shaped our evolutionary history for her next book.

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A portrait of the notorious early twentieth-century dancer and spy considers the theory that she may have been innocent of the charges for which she was executed, in an account that profiles her as a complicated seducer of men who had an unusual talent for manipulating the world in accordance with her preferences. 20,000 first printing.

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Pat Shipman
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HarperCollins

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Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari

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    Of the many Mata Hari biographies I have read, this is one of the better ones. Shipman emphasises Mata Hari's life in what is now called Indonesia as crucial for her choices later in life. What makes this work extra valuable is the elaborate subject index. The many notes at the end of the book also makes it a valuable source for further research.

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