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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gutierrez, Kathleen C. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • An asymptotic taxonomy
  • Scientific statecraft
  • Ubiquitous sampaguita
  • Woven transformations
  • Field labor's menace
  • The Latin babble.