The domestication of plants and animals is central to the familiar and now outdated story of civilization's emergence.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

About the Author
Heather Anne Swanson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University.

Marianne Elisabeth Lien is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo.

Gro B. Ween is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Cultural History Museum, University of Oslo.

Reviews
"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 Andia * PoLAR *



Book Information
ISBN 9780822371267
Author Heather Anne Swanson
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Duke University Press
Publisher Duke University Press
Weight(grams) 386g