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Book SynopsisDomestication 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.
Trade Review"Highly recommended for students and researchers interested in human/nonhuman relationships. ... Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals." -- E. N. Anderson * Choice *
"Not only this collection’s varied perspectives, but also its emerging questions, form a welcome contribution to the study of human/non-human relationships in our troubled times of extractivism and anthropogenic climate change." -- Juan Javier Rivera Andía * PoLAR *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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