Examines the controversy between behavioral scientists who have conceptualized the honeybee dance as a linguistic system and scientists who support the "great chain of being," with man and other higher animals "at the apex" and invertebrates "in the basement."
Online via University of Illinois Online Catalog - article search by subject (demonstration), Author draws upon fieldwork with farm advisors and growers, using the case of agricultural field trials to illustrate the role of "place" in applied science, highlight issues of "control" between scientists and their "public," and point to the challenges of producing consent through field trials.
