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Creating Better Chickens: A Story of Culture, Practice and Science, 1750-2007 (2009) |
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 This book studies the interrelationship of scientific and practical approaches to heredity within the framework of cultural structures. It does so by looking at poultry breeding and culture. Aspects of horse, cattle, sheep, and corn breeding enlarge on that central story, but the book focuses on poultry (meaning chickens) for two reasons.
This book studies the interrelationship of scientific and practical approaches to heredity within the framework of cultural structures. It does so by looking at poultry breeding and culture. Aspects of horse, cattle, sheep, and corn breeding enlarge on that central story, but the book focuses on poultry (meaning chickens) for two reasons.
First, breeding methods applied to poultry from roughly 1750 until the early 21st century reflect most clearly how practical and scientific attitudes to reproduction interfaced with each other. Second, the bewilderingly complex cultural structures that developed within the poultry breeding world serve well as examples of how pure culture can parade as either science or breeding methodology. |
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Poplar Lane Press 
