Abstract

MARTINEZ FLORES, Luz Alexandra; RUIVENKAMP, Guido  and  JONGERDEN, Joost. Plant breeding and social rationality: the unintended effects of the release of a lupino seed (Lupinus mutabilis Sweet) in Ecuador. Antipod. Rev. Antropol. Arqueol. [online]. 2016, n.26, pp.71-91. ISSN 1900-5407.  https://doi.org/10.7440/antipoda26.2016.03.

This article looks at how the generation of a cultivar may have unintended results forged as a plant breeding project is conceived and organized. Specifically, we investigate how a social rationality immersed in the scientific programs of modern agriculture guided the design of a new cultivar of lupine (Lupinus mutabilis Sweet), wherein which other seeds, rationales, spaces and actors were excluded. To develop this argument, we employ two methodological premises: cultivars can be understood as technological objects, and artefacts cannot be understood individually, since they are part of an integrated system.

Keywords : Etnografía; ciencia y tecnología; agricultura moderna; lupino; fitomejoramiento (palabras clave del autor); Ethnography; science and technology; modern agriculture; lupine; plat breeding; Etnografia; ciência e tecnologia; agricultura moderna; lupine; fitomelhoramento (palabras-chave do autor).

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