Where the Wild Things Are Now: Domestication Reconsidered (Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series)

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 between humans, animals and plants. Cultural Theory Has Taken A 'performative Turn,' Shifting Its Focus From The Textual Nature Of The World To How The Social World Is Narrated, Its Subjects Are Subjected And Its Relations Are Ritually Enacted. The Rise Of Performativity In Cultural Theory - Spearheaded In Many Ways By Feminist Theory - Has Profound Implications For The Way We Think About Ehtics And Politics. Indeed, As It Concerns All Aspects Of 'difference', It Reshapes The Ways We Think About The Continuities And Interruptions Of Social Life Itself. Culture And Performance Explores The Development And Direction Of The Notion Of Performativity. It Interrogates The Idea Of Subjectivity, The Possibility Of Ethics And, Beyond This, It Explores New Ways Of Thinking Political Imaginations And Possibilities. It Traces The Implications Of The Concept, And Assesses The Critique That Is Emerging From A Renewed Interest In Creativity.--book Jacket. The Domestication Of Anthropology / Nerissa Russell -- Animal Interface: The Generosity Of Domestication / Nigel Clark -- Selection And The Unforeseen Consequences Of Domestication / Helen M. Leach -- Agriculture Or Architecture? The Beginnings Of Domestication / Peter J. Wilson -- Monkey And Human Interconnections: The Wild, The Captive, And The In-between / Agustin Fuentes -- An Experiment On A Gigantic Scale: Darwin And The Domestication Of Pigeons / Gillian Feeley-harnik -- The Metaphor Of Domestication In Genetics / Karen Rader -- Domestication Downunder: Atlantic Salmon Farming In Tasmania / Marianne Lien -- Putting The Lion Out At Night: Domestication And The Taming Of The Wild / Yuka Suzuki -- Of Rice, Mammals, And Men: The Politics Of Wild And Domesticated Species In Vietnam / Pamela D. Mcelwee -- Feeding The Animals / Molly H. Mullin. Edited By Rebecca Cassidy And Molly Mullin. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 10 List of Figures......Page 12 Participants in the Wenner-Gren Foundation International Symposium "Where the Wild Things Are Now"......Page 16 Introduction: Domestication Reconsidered......Page 18 1. The Domestication of Anthropology......Page 44 2. Animal Interface: The Generosity of Domestication......Page 66 3. Selection and the Unforeseen Consequences of Domestication......Page 88 4. Agriculture or Architecture? The Beginnings of Domestication......Page 118 5. Monkey and Human Interconnections: The Wild, the Captive, and the In-between......Page 140 6. "An Experiment on a Gigantic Scale": Darwin and the Domestication of Pigeons......Page 164 7. The Metaphor of Domestication in Genetics......Page 200 8. Domestication "Downunder": Atlantic Salmon Farming in Tasmania......Page 222 9. Putting the Lion out at Night: Domestication and the Taming of the Wild......Page 246 10. Of Rice, Mammals, and Men: The Politics of "Wild" and "Domesticated" Species in Vietnam......Page 266 11. Feeding the Animals......Page 294 C......Page 322 F......Page 323 M......Page 324 S......Page 325 Z......Page 326 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