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Heirloom seeds and their keepers : marginality and memory in the conservation of biological diversity

Nazarea, Virginia D. (Virginia Dimasuay), 1954-

Overview

Farmers and gardeners have long appreciated a wide variety of plants and have nurtured them for meals, medicine, and exchange. But diversity too often has been surrendered to monocultures of fields and spirits, predisposing much of modern agriculture to uniformity and, consequently, vulnerability. Today it is primarily at the individual level - such as growing and saving a strange old bean variety or a curious-looking gourd - that any lasting conservation actually takes place. Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers offers a much-needed, scientifically researched perspective on the contribution of seedsaving that illustrates its critical significance to the preservation of both cultural knowledge and crop diversity around the world. It opens new conversations between anthropology and biology, and between researchers and practitioners, as it honors conservation as a way of life.

• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Subject: Seeds. / Germplasm resources, Plant Collection and preservation. / Traditional farming. / Agrobiodiversity conservation.
• ISBN: 0816531633, 9780816531639

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
SB117.N189 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE