Where the wild things are now [[electronic resource] ] : domestication reconsidered / / edited by Rebecca Cassidy and Molly Mullin
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| Titolo: |
Where the wild things are now [[electronic resource] ] : domestication reconsidered / / edited by Rebecca Cassidy and Molly Mullin
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Berg, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (326 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Domestication |
| Domestic animals | |
| Plants, Cultivated | |
| Human-animal relationships | |
| Human-plant relationships | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
CassidyRebecca
MullinMolly H. <1960->
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| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Where the wild things are now |
| ISBN: | 1-003-08737-X |
| 1-000-18325-4 | |
| 1-4742-1595-5 | |
| 1-282-47363-8 | |
| 9786612473630 | |
| 1-84788-332-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910450796903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Wenner-Gren international series.