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Lesley Head, Jennifer Atchison and Alison Gates: Ingrained: a human bio-geography of wheat

Lesley Head, Jennifer Atchison and Alison Gates: Ingrained: a human bio-geography of wheat Agric Hum Values (2014) 31:327–328 DOI 10.1007/s10460-014-9493-7 Lesley Head, Jennifer Atchison and Alison Gates: Ingrained: a human bio-geography of wheat Ashgate, Burlington, Vermont, 2012, 232pp, ISBN 978-1-4094-3787-1 Hannah Pitt Accepted: 27 February 2014 / Published online: 8 March 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 Wheat, everywhere yet nowhere is the theme of this engag- echoes of the ‘following’ methodology employed in cultural ing book. Through what is essentially a biography of one of geography, a form of multi-site ethnography where the world’s most ubiquitous plants we see how human his- researchers follow a thing through its places. They also look tory entangles with that of wheat, as flora and farmer shape to natural sciences for detailed accounts of wheat as material. each other. The authors lead us through wheat’s many places Drawing from botanical science they show how wheat and reveal some shadowy corners where it lurks unnoticed or became classified as a species, and how its characteristic unrecognised. Through a focus on one crop they argue a behaviour has evolved through the intervention of time and broader need to reconsider the place of plants in our thinking human influence. This is interwoven with accounts from the and research, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agriculture and Human Values Springer Journals

Lesley Head, Jennifer Atchison and Alison Gates: Ingrained: a human bio-geography of wheat

Pitt, Hannah
Agriculture and Human Values , Volume 31 (2) – Mar 8, 2014
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2014 by Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
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Philosophy; Ethics; Agricultural Economics; Veterinary Medicine; History; Evolutionary Biology
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0889-048X
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1572-8366
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10.1007/s10460-014-9493-7
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Agric Hum Values (2014) 31:327–328 DOI 10.1007/s10460-014-9493-7 Lesley Head, Jennifer Atchison and Alison Gates: Ingrained: a human bio-geography of wheat Ashgate, Burlington, Vermont, 2012, 232pp, ISBN 978-1-4094-3787-1 Hannah Pitt Accepted: 27 February 2014 / Published online: 8 March 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 Wheat, everywhere yet nowhere is the theme of this engag- echoes of the ‘following’ methodology employed in cultural ing book. Through what is essentially a biography of one of geography, a form of multi-site ethnography where the world’s most ubiquitous plants we see how human his- researchers follow a thing through its places. They also look tory entangles with that of wheat, as flora and farmer shape to natural sciences for detailed accounts of wheat as material. each other. The authors lead us through wheat’s many places Drawing from botanical science they show how wheat and reveal some shadowy corners where it lurks unnoticed or became classified as a species, and how its characteristic unrecognised. Through a focus on one crop they argue a behaviour has evolved through the intervention of time and broader need to reconsider the place of plants in our thinking human influence. This is interwoven with accounts from the and research,

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