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Hybrid Communities

Biosocial Approaches to Domestication and Other Trans-species Relationships
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Hybrid Communities examines domestication by breaking down the boundaries between natural and artificial. This interdisciplinary work integrates biology, social sciences, archaeology, and more to explore domestication both as an origin point and a continuing process, revealing how human, environmental, and biological factors interconnect.
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Ideal for scholars and readers interested in human-environment relationships, social anthropology, archaeology, genetics, ecology, botany, zoology, history, and philosophy.

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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.

Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138893993

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 August 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 17 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 27 Halftones, black and white; 29 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

  • Edited by Charles StΓ©panoff
  • Edited by Jean-Denis Vigne

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 740g

Pages: 324

About the Author

Charles StΓ©panoff is a social anthropologist (Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale, Γ‰cole pratique des hautes Γ©tudes, Sorbonne, France). His research interests include human-animal relationships in hunting, herding and shamanism in North Asia.

Jean-Denis Vigne is an archaeologist (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, MusΓ©um national d’Histoire naturelles, Sorbonne UniversitΓ©s, France). His research interests lie in archaeozoology, focused on interaction dynamics between animals and human societies, namely domestication, since the last hunters to the preindustrial farmer societies, mostly in the Mediterranean area, Southwest Asia and Central Asia and China.

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