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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450796903321

Titolo

Where the wild things are now [[electronic resource] ] : domestication reconsidered / / edited by Rebecca Cassidy and Molly Mullin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Berg, 2007

ISBN

1-003-08737-X

1-000-18325-4

1-4742-1595-5

1-282-47363-8

9786612473630

1-84788-332-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Collana

Wenner-Gren international symposium series

Altri autori (Persone)

CassidyRebecca

MullinMolly H. <1960->

Disciplina

306.4

Soggetti

Domestication

Domestic animals

Plants, Cultivated

Human-animal relationships

Human-plant relationships

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Participants at the Wenner-GrenFoundation International Symposium"Where the Wild Things Are Now"; Introduction: Domestication Reconsidered; 1 The Domestication of Anthropology; 2 Animal Interface: The Generosity of Domestication; 3 Selection and the Unforeseen Consequences of Domestication; 4 Agriculture or Architecture? The Beginnings of Domestication; 5 Monkey and Human Interconnections: The Wild, the Captive, and the In-between; 6 "An Experiment on a Gigantic Scale": Darwin and the Domestication of Pigeons

7 The Metaphor of Domestication in Genetics8 Domestication "Downunder": Atlantic Salmon Farming in Tasmania; 9 Putting the Lion



out at Night: Domestication and the Taming of the Wild; 10 Of Rice, Mammals, and Men: The Politics of "Wild" and "Domesticated" Species in Vietnam; 11 Feeding the Animals; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An examination of the concept of domestication against the shifting background of relationships among humans, animals and plants. It 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. Please note that images or diagrams have been excluded from this text due to copyright restrictions.