The domestication of plants and animals is central to the familiar and now outdated story of civilization's emergence. Intertwined with colonialism and imperial expansion, the domestication narrative has informed and justified dominant and often destructive practices. Contending that domestication retains considerable value as an analytical tool, the contributors to Domestication Gone Wild reengage the concept by highlighting sites and forms of domestication occurring in unexpected and marginal sites, from Norwegian fjords and Philippine villages to British falconry cages and South African colonial townships. Challenging idioms of animal husbandry as human mastery and progress, the contributors push beyond the boundaries of farms, fences, and cages to explore how situated relations with animals and plants are linked to the politics of human difference—and, conversely, how politics are intertwined with plant and animal life. Ultimately, this volume promotes a novel, decolonizing concept of domestication that radically revises its Euro- and anthropocentric narrative. Contributors. Inger Anneberg, Natasha Fijn, Rune Flikke, Frida Hastrup, Marianne Elisabeth Lien, Knut G. Nustad, Sara Asu Schroer, Heather Anne Swanson, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Mette Vaarst, Gro B. Ween, Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme
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Domestication Gone Wild offers a revisionary exploration of domestication as a narrative, ideal, and practice that reveals how our relations with animals and plants are intertwined with the politics of human difference.
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Acknowledgments vii Introduction. Naming the Beast—Exploring the Otherwise / Marianne Elisabeth Lien, Heather Anne Swanson, and Gro B. Ween 1 Part I. Intimate Encounters: Domestication from Within 1. Breeding with Birds of Prey: Intimate Encounters / Sara Asu Schroer 33 2. Pigs and Spirits in Ifugao: A Cosmological Decentering of Domestication / Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme 50 3. Dog Ears and Tails: Different Relational Ways of Being with Canines in Aboriginal Australia and Mongolia / Natasha Fijn 72 4. Farm Animals in a Welfare State: Commercial Pigs in Denmark / Inger Anneberg and Mette Vaarst 94 5. Ducks into Houses: Domestication and Its Margins / Marianne Elisabeth Lien 117 Part II. Beyond the Farm: Domestication as World-Making 6. Domestication Gone Wild: Pacific Salmon and the Disruption of the Domus / Heather Anne Swanson 141 7. Natural Goods on the Fruit Frontier: Cultivating Apples in Norway / Frida Hastrup 159 8. Domestication of Air, Scent, and Disease / Rune Flikke 176 9. How the Salmon Found Its Way Home: Science, State Ownership, and the Domestication of Wild Fish / Gro B. Ween and Heather Anne Swanson 196 10. Wilderness through Domestication: Trout, Colonialism, and Capitalism in South Africa / Knut G. Nustad 215 Provocation. Nine Provocations for the Study of Domestication / Anna Tsing 231 Contributors 252 Index 255
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"Highly recommended for students and researchers interested in human/nonhuman relationships. ... Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals."
“What do Pacific salmon, British falcons, pine trees everywhere, Ifugao pigs and spirits, and Norwegian apples have in common? They perform ‘domestication’ in ways certain to change the narratives and politics of domestication for scholars of whatever discipline and for critter people all over the earth. Read this book for up-to-the-minute, deeply researched, very smart, contentious takes on the shapes of conjoined humans and nonhumans living and dying together in diverse histories of civilization, colonialism, capitalism, times-past, and times-yet-to-come. Perhaps what opens up in this book are real possibilities for caring more materially in urgent times.”
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780822371335
Publisert
2018-10-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Duke University Press
Vekt
522 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
272
Biographical note
Heather Anne Swanson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University.Marianne Elisabeth Lien is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo.
Gro B. Ween is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Cultural History Museum, University of Oslo.