First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology

As European colonies in Asia and Africa became independent nations, as the United States engaged in war...
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Author: Jack Ralph Kloppenburg
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First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology by Kloppenburg, Jack Ralph

First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology

$566.79

First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology

$566.79
Author: Jack Ralph Kloppenburg
Format: Paperback
Language: English

As European colonies in Asia and Africa became independent nations, as the United States engaged in war in Southeast Asia and in covert operations in South America, anthropologists questioned their interactions with their subjects and worried about the political consequences of government-supported research. By 1970, some spoke of anthropology as the child of Western imperialism and as scientific colonialism. Ironically, as the link between anthropology and colonialism became more widely accepted within the discipline, serious interest in examining the history of anthropology in colonial contexts diminished.


This volume is an effort to initiate a critical historical consideration of the varying colonial situations in which (and out of which) ethnographic knowledge essential to anthropology has been produced. The essays comment on ethnographic work from the middle of the nineteenth century to nearly the end of the twentieth, in regions from Oceania through southeast Asia, the Andaman Islands, and southern Africa to North and South America.


The colonial situations also cover a broad range, from first contact through the establishment of colonial power, from District Officer administrations through white settler regimes, from internal colonialism to international mandates, from early pacification to wars of colonial liberation, from the expropriation of land to the defense of ecology. The motivations and responses of the anthropologists discussed are equally varied: the romantic resistance of Maclay and the complicity of Kubary in early colonialism; Malinowski s salesmanship of academic anthropology; Speck s advocacy of Indian land rights; Schneider s grappling with the ambiguities of rapport; and Turner s facilitation of Kaiapo cinematic activism.


Provides fresh insights for those who care about the history of science in general and that of anthropology in particular, and a valuable reference for professionals and graduate students. Choice


Among the most distinguished publications in anthropology, as well as in the history of social sciences. George Marcus, Anthropologica

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Author: Jack Ralph Kloppenburg
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 03/01/2005
Pages: 468
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.20w x 1.01d
ISBN: 9780299192440

About the Author
Jack Ralph Kloppenburg Jr. is professor of rural sociology in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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