This article is a case study of silkworm production in Bursa in the nineteenth century. This case was chosen mainly to discuss the relationship between scientific agricultural knowledge and peasants’ knowledge. The article argues that neither type of knowledge was static and that hybrid knowledge was the product of the interaction between scientific and peasants’ knowledge. Furthermore, it analyses how scientific knowledge turned from a cure for pebrine, a disease of silkworms, into a means of standardisation and control of the peasants’ production by the government and the Ottoman Public Debt Administration so that they could increase their revenue from sericulture. In this framework, the article also discusses how peasants’ knowledge changed partly by embracing scientific knowledge and partly by resisting it.

本文以19世纪布尔萨的蚕桑生产为例。选择该案例主要是为了探讨科学的农业知识与农民的知识之间的关系。该文章认为，知识的类型都不是静态的，混合知识是科学知识与农民知识之间相互作用的产物。此外，它分析了科学知识如何从治疗小儿麻痹症的方法转变为政府和奥斯曼公共债务管理局对农民生产进行标准化和控制的手段，从而使他们可以从蚕桑业中增加收入。在此框架下，本文还讨论了农民的知识如何通过拥抱科学知识而部分通过抵制科学知识而改变。