{"product_id":"unmaking-botany-kathleen-cruz-gutierrez-9781478031482","title":"Unmaking Botany: Science and Vernacular Knowledge in the Colonial Philippines","description":"In Anglo-European botany, it is customary to think of the vernacular as that which is not a Latin or Latinized scientific plant name. In \u003ci\u003eUnmaking Botany\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. Through this history, she redefines the vernacular, expanding it to include embodied, cosmological, artistic, and varied taxonomic practices. From the culinary textures of rice and the lyrics crooned to honor a flower to the touch of a skirt woven from banana fiber, she illuminates how vernaculars of plant knowing in the Philippines exposed the philosophical and practical limits of botany. Such vernaculars remained as sovereign forms of knowledge production. Yet, at the same time, they fueled botany's dominance over other ways of knowing plants. Revealing this tension allows Gutierrez to theorize \"sovereign vernaculars,\" or insight into plants that made and \u003ci\u003eun\u003c\/i\u003emade the science, which serves as a methodological provocation to examine the interplay of different knowledge systems and to study the history of science from multiple vantage points.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478031484\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478031482\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs","brand":"Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46571226464511,"sku":"9781478031482","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cd8812a5-1c62-4aa8-aff5-a699ab03d520.jpg?v=1738807612","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unmaking-botany-kathleen-cruz-gutierrez-9781478031482","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}