Domestication gone wild : politics and practices of multispecies relations / Heather Anne Swanson, Marianne Lien, Gro B. Ween, eds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Swanson, Heather Anne, 1979- editor.

Lien, Marianne E., editor.

Ween, Gro, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Domestication.

Human-animal relationships.

Human-plant relationships.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.

Summary:

The domestication of plants and animals is central to the familiar and now outdated story of civilization's emergence.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

Contents:

Intimate encounters: domestication from within

Breeding with birds of prey: intimate encounters / Sara Asu Schroer

Pigs and spirits in Ifugao: a cosmological decentering of domestication / Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme

Dog ears and tails: different relational ways of being with canines in aboriginal Australia and Mongolia / Natasha Fijn

Farm animals in a welfare state: commercial pigs in Denmark / Inger Anneberg and Mette Vaarst

Ducks into houses: domestication and its margins / Marianne Lien

Beyond the farm: domestication as world-making

Domestication gone wild: Pacific salmon and the disruption of the domus / Heather Anne Swanson

Natural goods on the fruit frontier: cultivating apples in Norway / Frida Hastrup

Domestication of air, scent, and disease / Rune Flikke

How the salmon found its way home: science, state ownership, and the domestication of wild fish / Gro B. Ween and Heather Anne Swanson

Wilderness through domestication: trout, colonialism, and capitalism in South Africa / Knut Nustad

Nine provocations for the study of domestication / Anna Tsing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822371649

0822371642

OCLC:

1153037353