ABSTRACT
Domestication challenges our understanding of human-environment relationships because it blurs the dichotomy between what is artificial and what is natural. In domestication, biological evolution, environmental change, techniques and practices, anthropological trajectories and sociocultural choices are inextricably interconnected. Domestication is essentially a hybrid phenomenon that needs to be explored with hybrid scientific approaches.
Hybrid Communities: Biosocial Approaches to Domestication and Other Trans-species Relationships attempts for the first time to explore domestication viewed from across disciplines both in its origins and as an ongoing process. This edited collection proposes new biosocial approaches and concepts which integrate the methods of social sciences, archaeology and biology to shed new light on domestication in diachrony and in synchrony.
This book will be of great interest to all scholars working on human-environment relationships, and should also attract readers from the fields of social anthropology, archaeology, genetics, ecology, botany, zoology, history and philosophy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|92 pages
Liminal processes
chapter 3|15 pages
Beyond wild and domestic
part II|50 pages
How domestication changes humans’ bodies and sociality
chapter 8|18 pages
Watching the horses
part III|85 pages
Shared places, entangled lives
chapter 9|14 pages
Growing a shared landscape
chapter 10|18 pages
Fig and olive domestication in the Rif, northern Morocco
chapter 11|24 pages
Cooperating with the wild
chapter 12|14 pages
Why did the Khamti not domesticate their elephants?
part IV|53 pages
Ongoing transformations