Bombyx and Bugs in Meiji Japan: Toward a Multispecies History?

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Onaga, Lisa A.
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2016
• الموضوعات: history of science; history of animals
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83801; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41477; http://sfonline.barnard.edu/life-un-ltd-feminism-bioscience-race/bombyx-and-bugs-in-meiji-japan-toward-a-multispecies-history/

In the lively, experimental spirit of multispecies research, I explore how a broader view of the domesticated silkworm species, which includes the “bugs” that afflicted it, forces us to reenvision familiar histories of sericulture that centered upon the means and end of “silk making.” In this case,...