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Hybrid Communities 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. Charles Stépanoff is a social anthropologist (Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale, École pratique des hautes études, 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, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelles, Sorbonne Universités, 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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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice : Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Stépanoff, Charles, editor. | Vigne, Jean-Denis, editor. Title: Hybrid communities : biosocial approaches to domestication and other trans-species relationships / edited by Charles Stépanoff and Jean-Denis Vigne. Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Routledge studies in anthropology ; 46 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017058517 (print) | LCCN 2018016153 (ebook) | ISBN 9781315179988 (ebook) | ISBN 9781351717984 (web pdf) | ISBN 9781351717977 (epub) | ISBN 9781351717960 (mobi/kindle) | ISBN 9781138893993 (hardback : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Domestication. | Nature—Effect of human beings on. | Human-animal relationships. | Human-plant relationships. Classification: LCC SF41 (ebook) | LCC SF41 .H94 2018 (print) | DDC 636—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017058517 ISBN: 978-1-138-89399-3 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-17998-8 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Apex CoVantage, LLC Contents List of figures ix List of tables xi List of contributors xiii Introduction 1 CHARLES STÉPANOFF AND JEAN-DENIS VIGNE PART I Liminal processes: beyond the wild and the domestic 21 1 A genetic perspective on the domestication continuum 23 LAURENT A. F. FRANTZ AND GREGER LARSON 2 Self-domestication or human control? The Upper Palaeolithic domestication of the wolf 39 MIETJE GERMONPRÉ, MARTINA LÁZNIČKOVÁ-GALETOVÁ, MIKHAIL V. SABLIN AND HERVÉ BOCHERENS 3 Beyond wild and domestic: human complex relationships with dogs, wolves, and wolf-dog hybrids 65 NICOLAS LESCUREUX 4 Wild game or farm animal? Tracking human-pig relationships in ancient times through stable isotope analysis 81 MARIE BALASSE, THOMAS CUCCHI, ALLOWEN EVIN, ADRIAN BĂLĂŞESCU, DELPHINE FRÉMONDEAU AND MARIE-PIERRE HORARD-HERBIN 5 Arable weeds as a case study in plant-human relationships beyond domestication 97 AMY BOGAARD, MOHAMMED ATER AND JOHN G. HODGSON vi Contents PART II How domestication changes humans’ bodies and sociality 113 6 From fighting against to becoming with: viruses as companion species 115 CHARLOTTE BRIVES 7 Milk as a pivotal medium in the domestication of cattle, sheep and goats 127 MÉLANIE ROFFET-SALQUE, ROSALIND E. GILLIS, RICHARD P. EVERSHED AND JEAN-DENIS VIGNE 8 Watching the horses: the impact of horses on early pastoralists’ sociality and political ethos in Inner Asia 145 GALA ARGENT PART III Shared places, entangled lives 163 9 Growing a shared landscape: plants and humans over generations among the Duupa farmers of northern Cameroon 165 ÉRIC GARINE, ADELINE BARNAUD AND CHRISTINE RAIMOND 10 Fig and olive domestication in the Rif, northern Morocco: entangled human and tree lives and history 179 Y ILDIZ AUMEERUDDY-THOMAS A ND YOUNES HMIMSA 11 Cooperating with the wild: past and present auxiliary animals assisting humans in their foraging activities 197 EDMOND DOUNIAS 12 Why did the Khamti not domesticate their elephants? Building a hybrid sociality with tamed elephants 221 NICOLAS LAINÉ 13 Cognition and emotions in dog domestication 235 SARAH JEANNIN Contents vii PART IV Ongoing transformations 249 14 Domestication and animal labour 251 JOCELYNE PORCHER AND SOPHIE NICOD 15 Human-dog-reindeer communities in the Siberian Arctic and Subarctic 261 KONSTANTIN KLOKOV AND VLADIMIR DAVYDOV 16 Domesticating the machine? (Re)configuring domestication practices in robotic dairy farming 275 SÉVERINE LAGNEAUX 17 From parasite to reared insect: humans and mosquitoes in Réunion Island 289 SANDRINE DUPÉ Index 302 Figures 0.1 Hybrid communities. 12 1.1 Schematic of various models of domestication and their effect on genetic diversity. 25 2.1 Dorsal view of a Pleistocene wolf skull from the Gravettian Předmostí site. 43 2.2 Dorsal view of the Palaeolithic dog skull from the Goyet cave. 44 4.1 Results from stable carbon (δ 13 C) and nitrogen (δ 15 N) analysis of bone collagen from pigs, sheep and human remains from the mediaeval city of York. 84 4.2 Reliance of pigs on domestic farmed food (millet, animal protein scraps) in Dadiwan in ancient China, as evidenced from stable isotope composition of bone collagen. 87 4.3 Gradual changes through time in pigs’ diet in Xiawanggang, with an increasing contribution of millet and animal proteins. 89 4.4 A: Stable isotope ratios in bone collagen of the main species from the Gumelniţa culture assemblages at Borduşani-Popină, Hârşova-tell and Vităneşti-Măgurice. B : Stable isotope ratios in bone collagen from suids with small ‘domestic’, large ‘wild’ and large ‘domestic’ molars (from geometric morphometric analyses). 91 5.1 Display of gathered plants including weedy M alva spp., market, Jeblia, Rif region, Morocco. 101 5.2 Vicia sativa subsp. nigra , growing as a weed of cereals in the oasis of Imin-o-Iaouane on the southern slopes of the High Atlas, Morocco. 102 5.3 Harvested décrue barley field, showing spiny weeds (E chinops spinosus ), Guelmim province, Morocco. 103 7.1 Proportion of animal fat residues identified as milk fats, ruminant and non-ruminant adipose fats and aquatic fats in archaeological sherds from the Neolithic in Europe and the Near East. 133 7.2 Detail of a milking scene from rock art in a rockshelter at Tasigmet, Oued Djerrat (Tassili-n-Ajjer). 135 7.3 Hypothetical cattle kill-off profiles. 136 8.1 Reconstruction of the Berel 11 burial mound. 147
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