Saving Heritage Breeds
a love story
$22.40
- Paperback
120 pages
- Release Date
16 March 2025
Summary
Rescuing Our Roots: The Fight to Save Australia’s Heritage Breeds
Driving through the countryside, you may have noticed that nowadays it’s paddock after paddock of merino sheep, while virtually every cow lining up for milking is black and white. Your neighbours’ backyard chooks are likely to be Isa Browns. You probably can’t even remember the last time you saw a pig, because they’re all hidden away in sheds.
An extinction crisis is quietly unfolding on our farms. Since mid-l…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760803025 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1760803022 |
| Series: | Vignettes |
| Author: | Catie Gressier |
| Publisher: | UWA Publishing |
| Imprint: | UWA Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 120 |
| Release Date: | 16 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 156g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 198mm x 129mm |
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About The Author
Catie Gressier
Catie Gressier is a cultural anthropologist whose research explores foodways, tourism, and health and illness. She is the author of At Home in the Okavango: White Batswana Narratives of Emplacement and Belonging (Berghahn), and Illness, Identity and Taboo among Australian Paleo Dieters (Palgrave). Catie is an Adjunct Research Fellow in the School of Agriculture and Environment at UWA, and a PhD candidate at Curtin University. She is a Director of the Board of the Rare Breeds Trust of Australia, an Editorial Board member of Anthropological Forum, and the Coordinator of the Ecology, People, Place (EcoPeoPle) research network.
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