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Where the wild things are now : domestication reconsidered / edited by Rebecca Cassidy and Molly Mullin.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Wenner-Gren international series
- Wenner-Gren international symposium series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Domestication--Congresses.
- Domestication.
- Domestic animals--Congresses.
- Domestic animals.
- Plants, Cultivated--Congresses.
- Plants, Cultivated.
- Human-animal relationships--Congresses.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Human-plant relationships--Congresses.
- Human-plant relationships.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007.
- Summary:
- Domestication has often seemed a matter of the distant past, a series of distinct events involving humans and other species that took place long ago. Today, as genetic manipulation continues to break new barriers in scientific and medical research, we appear to be entering an age of biological control. Are we also writing a new chapter in the history of domestication?
- Where the Wild Things Are Now explores the relevance of domestication for anthropologists and scholars in related fields who are concerned with understanding ongoing change in processes affecting humans as well as other species. From the pet food industry and its critics to salmon farming in Tasmania, the protection of endangered species in Vietnam and the pigeon fanciers who influenced Darwin, Where the Wild Things Are Now provides an urgently needed re-examination of the concept of domestication against the shifting background of relationships among humans, animals and plants.
- Contents:
- Participants in the Wenner-Gren Foundation International Symposium "Where the Wild Things Are Now" xv
- Introduction: Domestication Reconsidered / Rebecca Cassidy 1
- 1 The Domestication of Anthropology / Nerissa Russell 27
- 2 Animal Interface: The Generosity of Domestication / Nigel Clark 49
- 3 Selection and the Unforeseen Consequences of Domestication / Helen M. Leach 71
- 4 Agriculture or Architecture? The Beginnings of Domestication / Peter J. Wilson 101
- 5 Monkey and Human Interconnections: The Wild, the Captive, and the In-between / Agustin Fuentes 123
- 6 "An Experiment on a Gigantic Scale": Darwin and the Domestication of Pigeons / Gillian Feeley-Harnik 147
- 7 The Metaphor of Domestication in Genetics / Karen Rader 183
- 8 Domestication "Downunder": Atlantic Salmon Farming in Tasmania / Marianne Lien 205
- 9 Putting the Lion out at Night: Domestication and the Taming of the Wild / Yuka Suzuki 229
- 10 Of Rice, Mammals, and Men: The Politics of "Wild" and "Domesticated" Species in Vietnam / Pamela D. McElwee 249
- 11 Feeding the Animals / Molly H. Mullin 277.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781845201524
- 1845201523
- 9781845201531
- 1845201531
- OCLC:
- 74525352
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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