Domestication

This note is about the concept of domestication, including relationships between humans and nonhumans, self-domestication by humans, etc.

Cf.

  • Niche, niche construction
  • Domestication studies
  • Coevolution

Definitions

Noske, Barbara. Beyond Boundaries: Humand and Animals. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1997.

References

Ingold, Tim. The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill. London: Routledge, 2000.

Laland, Kevin N., John Odling-Smee, and Marcus W. Feldman. “Niche Construction, Biological Evolution, and Cultural Change.” The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23, no. 1 (2000): 131–46. https://doi.org/10/c58hwb.

Russell, Nerissa. Social Zooarchaeology: Humans and Animals in Prehistory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Shipman, Pat. The Animal Connection: A New Perspective on What Makes Us Human. W. W. Norton, 2011.

Swanson, Heather Anne, Marianne E. Lien, and Gro Ween, eds. Domestication Gone Wild: Politics and Practices of Multispecies Relations. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018.

Zeder, Melinda A. “The Domestication of Animals.” Journal of Anthropological Research 68, no. 2 (2012): 161–90.


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