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020			_a9780520307681 (hardback)
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050	0	0	_aSB191.M2 _bCUR
100	1		_aCurry, Helen Anne, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aEndangered maize : _bindustrial agriculture and the crisis of extinction / _cHelen Anne Curry.
260			_aOakland, California : _bUniversity of California Press, _c2022
264		4	_c©2022
300			_axii, 321 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aumdediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bn _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"Many people worry that we're losing genetic diversity in the foods we eat. Over the past century, crop varieties standardized for industrial agriculture have increasingly dominated farm fields. Concerned about what this transition means for the future of food, scientists, farmers, and eaters have sought to protect crop plants they consider endangered. They have organized high-tech genebanks and heritage seed swaps. They have combed fields for ancient landraces and sought farmers growing Indigenous varieties. Behind this widespread concern for the loss of plant diversity lies another extinction narrative about the survival of farmers themselves, a story that is often obscured by urgent calls to collect and preserve. Endangered Maize draws on the rich history of corn in Mexico and the United States to trace the motivations behind these hidden extinction stories and show how they shaped the conservation strategies adopted by scientists, states, and citizens. In Endangered Maize, historian Helen Anne Curry investigates more than a hundred years of agriculture and conservation practices to understand the tasks that farmers and researchers have considered essential to maintaining crop diversity. Through the contours of efforts to preserve diversity in one of the world's most important crops, Curry reveals how conservationists forged their methods around expectations of social, political, and economic transformations that would eliminate diverse communities and cultures. In this fascinating study of how cultural narratives shape science, Curry argues for new understandings of endangerment and alternative strategies to protect and preserve crop diversity"--
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aCorn _zNorth America _xHistory.
650		0	_aAgrobiodiversity conservation _zNorth America.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aCurry, Helen Anne. _tEndangered maize _dOakland, California : University of California Press, [2022] _z9780520307681 _w(DLC) 2021016955
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