ABSTRACT
Mosquitoes, as parasites of humans, have forged close links with them. This chapter is based on an ethnographic study carried out in Réunion Island between 2010 and 2013. It examines possible shifts between a parasitic species and a domestic, domesticated or domesticable species. For this, mosquitoes present in different areas are compared to the yardstick of an analysis grid built from the work of Mason (1985) and here updated. These comparisons are an opportunity to question the construction of domestication from the point of view of the interspecific interactions that are formed between humans and mosquitoes, as well as from a political point of view.
