Care of the Species: Races of Corn and the Science of Plant Biodiversity
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (818 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0816685355 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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is professor of anthropology and director of the Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. John Hartigan Jr. He is author of Aesop’s Anthropology: A Multispecies Approach (Minnesota, 2015).
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).. About the AuthorJohn Hartigan Jr
In the botanical gardens of Spain, Care of the Species explores seed banks, herbariums, and living collections, depicting the range of ways people interact with botanical knowledge. With geneticists working on maize, Hartigan deploys Foucault’s concept of care of the self to analyze how domesticated species are augmented by an afterlife of data. In tackling the racial dimension of efforts to go “beyond the human,” this book reveals a far greater stratum of sameness than commonly assumed.. He begins by tracing the historical emergence of race through practices of care on nonhumans, showing how this history