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 moreour food systems and the animals caught up in them, and about the inevitability of uncertainty, offered with no closure and with a masterly voice. Times Literary Supplement A timely contribution... Overall, Becoming Salmon is a detailed and illuminating study of a rapidly growing industry, offering key insights into the practices of care that literally bring fish as food animals to, and through, life. Anthropology of Work Review Show Less