The Benefits of the Cold and Domestication A New Understanding of Human-Animal Partnerships for Thriving in Extreme Environments

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 ca...

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Main Authors:	Stammler, Florian, Takakura, Hiroki
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford Routledge 2025 Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis Group
Edition:	1
Series:	Arctic Worlds
Subjects:	animal autonomy Anthropology Applied ecology arctic domestication Biodiversity Domestic animals-Cold Regions-Case studies domestication Domestication-Cold Regions-Case studies dzud Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning ecology ethnography florian stammler genetics Geography hiroki takakura Human geography human-animal relations Human-animal relationships-Cold Regions-Case studies law northern domestication Pastoral systems-Cold Regions-Case studies Regional geography Social and cultural anthropology Social impact of environmental issues Social Science Society and Social Sciences Sociology and anthropology The environment anthropology human-animal relations hiroki takakura law florian stammler dzud animal autonomy arctic domestication ecology genetics geography domestication ethnography northern domestication
ISBN:	0367463709, 1032955910, 9780367463700, 9781032955919, 9780367467401, 1040336701, 0367467402, 9781040336762, 1040336760, 9781040336700
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Table of Contents:

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Transliteration -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Benefits of the Cold and Domestication -- Section I: Cross-Cutting Perspective on Northern Domestication -- Chapter 2: The North as a Space for Innovation in Human-animal-environment Adaptation -- Chapter 3: Domestication and Adaptation of Pastoral Animals and Human Livelihoods to the Arctic: An Integrated Genetic-Anthropological Approach -- Section II: Domestication among Hunters -- Chapter 4: Domus-Sharing in the Vicinity of Domestication: An Ethnography of Human-Wildlife-Land Interactions in Interior Alaska -- Chapter 5: From Relatives to Enemies: Emplaced Evenki Relationships With Wolves in the Changing Environment of East Siberia and the Russian Far East -- Section III: Convivial Ecology Embracing Animal Autonomy -- Chapter 6: On Encountering and Holding Reindeer in a Convivial North -- Chapter 7: Reindeer Riding and Driving: A Preliminary Essay On the Use of Domesticated Reindeer for Transportation -- Chapter 8: Between Foot Rot and Wolves: The Internal and External Threats of Tozhu Reindeer Herding -- Chapter 9: Fish Sharing Between Humans and Reindeer in the Western Siberian Forest and the Mode of Herding -- Section IV: Cold Domestication Beyond the Arctic -- Chapter 10: Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) of Steppe Land for Dzud Disaster Reduction in the Mongolian Nomadic Community -- Chapter 11: Revisiting the Distinction Between Wild and Domestic: The Relationship Between Herders and Camelids in the Central Andean Highlands of Peru -- Section V: Domestication Beyond Animals: Of Culture, Nature, and the Law
Chapter 12: Laws of Domestication and Domesticating the Law in Yakutian Human-animal Relations -- Chapter 13: Domesticating Wolves While Colonizing Their Hunters: Related Patterns of Categorization to Promote Supposed Sustainability in Northern Sweden -- Index