Post on 23-Feb-2016
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Arctic Domestication: • an old theme, with special relevance to anthropology
• domestication classically defined as a sudden relationship of domination, which divides the world into ‘wild’ and ‘cultivated’ types
• in the history of the sciences, linked to colonialism and projects of improvement
• recent research calls into question older models
o Human-Animal relations in the Arctic traditionally are an awkward fito Among the ‘cradles’ and ‘hearths’ are new types of domestic animals, as well as puzzling ‘hybrids’
o These relations are often ‘emplaced’ in mindful landscapes.
Field ‘laboratories’ and interdisciplinarity:
o ethnography
o science studies
o environmental archaeology
o genetic sampling
• the idea of a field laboratory complicates the idea of ‘person’ and ‘place’ by researching locales where domestication arises
• we therefore treat tundra encampments and university laboratory as sites of equal status, not to mention enskillment that flows from animals to people or from animals to other animals.
• in terms of ‘data’ we will work with four traditions: