Unmaking botany : science and vernacular knowledge in the colonial Philippines /
"Unmaking Botany explores colonial botany in the Philippines and the vernacular ways of knowing plant life that persisted linguistically and otherwise. Situated in the last four decades of Spanish colonization (1858-1898) and the first four of US colonial occupation (1898-1935), the book draws...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2025.
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| Summary: | "Unmaking Botany explores colonial botany in the Philippines and the vernacular ways of knowing plant life that persisted linguistically and otherwise. Situated in the last four decades of Spanish colonization (1858-1898) and the first four of US colonial occupation (1898-1935), the book draws on archival source materials to highlight the influences that informed both regimes' approaches to botanical science and provide an account of botanists grappling with vernacular practices. Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez argues that as botany accelerated to internationally standardize practices in the name of imperialism, those reliant on vernacular knowledge exposed the epistemological limitations, mortal fragility, and nomenclatural instability of the science in a colonial setting. Following this tension between colonial practices and the vernacular, Gutierrez examines the interplay of different knowledge systems to unseat the all-encompassing sovereignty of imperial botany"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 269 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781478060475 (electronic bk.) 1478060476 |