Unmaking Botany

Unmaking Botany

Science and Vernacular Knowledge in the Colonial Philippines

Gutierrez, Kathleen Cruz

Duke University Press

04/2025

280

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9781478028277

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A Note on Orthography, Terms, and Formatting ix
Introduction. Sovereign Vernaculars 1
Part I. A Botany at Its Most Defined
1. An Asymptotic Taxonomy 29
2. Scientific Statecraft 55
Part II. Science in a Place of Flux
3. Ubiquitous Sampaguita 85
4. Woven Transformations 107
Part III. Assembling a Wider Expanse
5. Field Labor's Menace 135
6. The Latin Babble 159
Conclusion. Of Place, Moment, and Source 183
Acknowledgments 199
Notes 205
Bibliography 235
Index 273
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plants; ways of knowing; colonial science; US Colonialism; Spanish Colonialism; sovereign vernaculars; botany; Philippines; botanical nomenclature; Jardin Botanico de Manila; International Botanical Congress; botanical illustrations; Regino Garcia; Sebastian Vidal; Jasminum sambac; Mindanao; plant collectors; colonial botany; Elmer D. Merrill; Mary Strong Clemens; floristic region