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Arctic Domestication: • an old theme, with special relevance to anthropology

• domestication classically defined as a sudden relationship of domination, which divides the world into ‘wild’ and ‘cultivated’ types

• in the history of the sciences, linked to colonialism and projects of improvement

• recent research calls into question older models

o Human-Animal relations in the Arctic traditionally are an awkward fito Among the ‘cradles’ and ‘hearths’ are new types of domestic animals, as well as puzzling ‘hybrids’

o These relations are often ‘emplaced’ in mindful landscapes.

Field ‘laboratories’ and interdisciplinarity:

o ethnography

o science studies

o environmental archaeology

o genetic sampling

• the idea of a field laboratory complicates the idea of ‘person’ and ‘place’ by researching locales where domestication arises

• we therefore treat tundra encampments and university laboratory as sites of equal status, not to mention enskillment that flows from animals to people or from animals to other animals.

• in terms of ‘data’ we will work with four traditions: