First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology

by Jack R. Kloppenburg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029919244X
• ISBN13: 9780299192440
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.0"