John Hartigan Jr.

Care of the Species

Races of Corn and the Science of Plant Biodiversity

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Produktbeschreibung

John Hartigan Jr. is professor of anthropology and director of the Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. He is author of Aesop’s Anthropology: A Multispecies Approach (Minnesota, 2015).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9780816685356
• ISBN-10: 0816685355
• Artikelnr.: 48066316

Autorenporträt

John Hartigan Jr. is professor of anthropology and director of the Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. He is author of Aesop’s Anthropology: A Multispecies Approach (Minnesota, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Species Interiors
1. Follow the Species: In and Out of Labs
2. Maize: An Ethnohistory
3. Racial Thinking: Transgenics versus Razas
4. Selfing: The Sexual History of a Species
5. Species Thinking: Calibrating Knowledge of Life Forms
Interlude: Figure and Ground 
Part II. Knowing Plants
6. Living Ethnographies: Of Plants and Arguments
7. Species Don’t Exist: Theorizing Life Forms
8. Care and Its Publics: Peopling Botanical Gardens
9. How to Interview a Plant: Ethnography of Life Forms
Epilogue: An Elegant Plant
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index