Care of the Species: Races of Corn and the Science of Plant Biodiversity

摘要

The title of this book, taken on its own, might lead one to think that it is written by a biologist and that it will give a scientific review of the rich history of research on corn biodiversity. This would be an erroneous assumption, as this particular book explores the science of biodiversity from a very different perspective: that of cultural anthropology. Hartigan uses the tools of ethnography to examine ideas of race across species, the care of humans for nonhuman beings, and how our ideas about plants and diversity informs the way we think about conservation.