This is a really cool book. Colonial botanists in the Philippines were overwhelmed & needed indigenous knowledge -- but in succeeding colonial logics, what the Spanish scientists thought was botany & what the US scientists thought was different. Imperial "bringing science" but not the same science.
Reposted from Duke University Press
In her upcoming book, "Unmaking Botany," Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez traces a history of botany in the Philippines during the last decades of Spanish rule and the first decades of US colonization. Read the intro for free our website now! #PostcolonialStudies #AsianStudies
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