The Benefits of the Cold and Domestication

A New Understanding of Human-Animal Partnerships for Thriving in Extreme Environments
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-367-46370-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Arctic Worlds

This book explores cooperation between humans and animals in extreme environments and contends that understanding domestication is crucial to explaining how life is possible in such conditions.

The chapters draw on work from anthropology, genetics, law, and geography, with a range of ethnographic case studies from cold environments. The contributors offer new evidence for rethinking the dichotomy of trust vs domination previously used to characterize human-animal relations. They show how humans and animals partner for survival, and how a cold environment does not merely threaten existence but rather creates opportunities. Domestication is presented as a continuous, mutually beneficial human-animal relationship of becoming familiar with each other and the surrounding environment, which can lead to a symbiotic partnership of multiple agents for adapting to changes including a warming climate.

This volume will be relevant to scholars from anthropology, geography, and related disciplines interested in human-animal relations, ecology, and the environment, particularly in the North.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stammler, Florian

Takakura, Hiroki

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: The Benefits of the Cold and Domestication Florian Stammler and Hiroki Takakura  Section I: Cross-Cutting Perspective on Northern Domestication  2. The North as a Space for Innovation in Human–Animal–Environment Adaptation Hiroki Takakura  3. Domestication and Adaptation of Pastoral Animals and Human Livelihoods to the Arctic: An Integrated Genetic-Anthropological Approach Juha Kantanen and Florian Stammler  Section II: Domestication Among Hunters  4. Domus-Sharing in the Vicinity of Domestication: An Ethnography of Human–Wildlife–Land Interactions in Interior Alaska Shiaki Kondo  5. From Relatives to Enemies: Emplaced Evenki Relationships with Wolves in the Changing Environment of East Siberia and the Russian Far East Donatas Brandišauskas  Section III: Convivial Ecology Embracing Animal Autonomy  6. On Encountering and Holding Reindeer in a Convivial North David G. Anderson  7. Reindeer Riding and Driving: A Preliminary Essay on the Use of Domesticated Reindeer for Transportation Shiro Sasaki  8. Between Foot Rot and Wolves: The Internal and External Threats of Tozhu Reindeer Herding Charles Stépanoff  9. Fish Sharing between Humans and Reindeer in the Western Siberian Forest and the Mode of Herding Yuka Oishi  Section IV: Cold Domestication Beyond the Arctic  10. Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) of Steppe Land for ‘Dzud’ Disaster Reduction in the Mongolian Nomadic Community Takuya Soma  11. Revisiting the Distinction between Wild and Domestic: The Relationship between Herders and Camelids in the Central Andean Highlands of Peru Asami Tsukuda  Section V: Domestication Beyond Animals: Of Culture, Nature, and the Law  12. Laws of Domestication and Domesticating the Law in Yakutian Human-Animal Relations Aytalina Ivanova and Florian Stammler  13. Domesticating Wolves While Colonizing Their Hunters: Related Patterns of Categorization to Promote Supposed Sustainability in Northern Sweden Hugh Beach

Über Autor(innen)

Florian Stammler is Research Professor in Anthropology and coordinates the Anthropology Research Team at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, Finland. He has lived with people and led research in Arctic Russia, Finland, and Greenland, and published extensively on human–animal relations, Arctic extractive industries, oral history, and youth well-being.

Hiroki Takakura is a social anthropologist and Director and Professor at the Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University, Japan. His research interests cover human–animal relations, climate change, disaster resilience, ethnicity, and arctic human history including the ethnohistory of Siberia and Northeast Asia.