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Becoming Salmon: Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish
Marianne Elisabeth Lien
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Description for Becoming Salmon: Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish
Hardback. Explores how the growth of marine domestication has blurred traditional distinctions between fish and animals, recasting farmed fish as sentient beings, capable of feeling pain and subject to animal-welfare legislation. This book focuses on the fragile and contingent relational practices that constitute salmon aquaculture. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, 8 black and white, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: JHMC; TVT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 482.
Becoming Salmon is the first ethnographic account of salmon aquaculture, the most recent turn in the human history of animal domestication. In this careful and nuanced study, Marianne Elisabeth Lien explores how the growth of marine domestication has blurred traditional distinctions between fish and animals, recasting farmed fish as sentient beings, capable of feeling pain and subject to animal-welfare legislation. Drawing on fieldwork on and off salmon farms, Lien follows farmed Atlantic salmon through contemporary industrial husbandry, exposing how salmon are bred to be hungry, globally mobile, and alien in their watersheds of origin. Attentive to both the ... Read more
Becoming Salmon is the first ethnographic account of salmon aquaculture, the most recent turn in the human history of animal domestication. In this careful and nuanced study, Marianne Elisabeth Lien explores how the growth of marine domestication has blurred traditional distinctions between fish and animals, recasting farmed fish as sentient beings, capable of feeling pain and subject to animal-welfare legislation. Drawing on fieldwork on and off salmon farms, Lien follows farmed Atlantic salmon through contemporary industrial husbandry, exposing how salmon are bred to be hungry, globally mobile, and alien in their watersheds of origin. Attentive to both the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
California Studies in Food and Culture
Condition
New
Weight
481g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520280564
SKU
V9780520280564
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About Marianne Elisabeth Lien
Marianne Elisabeth Lien is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Reviews for Becoming Salmon: Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish
The book is both a keenly insightful exploration of the mutual effect of salmon and the people who raise them, and an engaging love letter to ethnography, which illuminates the ways in which such work can expand the boundaries of how we think about vexing issues of science and society... Here is anthropology that speaks to all of us about ... Read more