Bites, Blood, Boundaries: Rats, Mosquitoes, and Domestication across Disciplines

IF 0.3 4区 历史学 Q2 HISTORY
Luisa Reis-Castro, Jia Hui Lee
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Abstract

Abstract Domestication is a set of processes that requires active reconfigurations of interspecies relations, environments, and technologies. In this view, both ethnographic and historical sources help us track the exact ways that domestication as a practice actively reveals and conceals relations of power among people and between people and other animals. Two pertinent cases—training rats in Tanzania to detect landmines and releasing mosquitoes to deter the transmission of pathogenic viruses in Brazil—take place in contexts where animals are being modified to achieve certain developmental, medical, or humanitarian goals. These animals, like any in the history of domestication, breach boundaries, crossing wild and domestic categories, in these cases at the moment and experience of being bitten. These moments draw our attention to the stakes involved in thinking about domestication.
咬、血、边界:老鼠、蚊子和跨学科驯化
摘要 驯化是一系列需要积极重新配置物种间关系、环境和技术的过程。根据这一观点,人种学和历史资料有助于我们追踪驯化作为一种实践积极揭示和隐藏人与人之间以及人与其他动物之间权力关系的确切方式。两个相关的案例--在坦桑尼亚训练老鼠探测地雷,在巴西释放蚊子阻止病原病毒传播--都发生在这样的背景下,动物被改造以实现某些发展、医疗或人道主义目标。与驯化史上的任何动物一样,这些动物打破了界限,跨越了野生和驯养的范畴,在这些案例中,动物被咬的瞬间和经历就是如此。这些时刻让我们注意到思考驯化问题所涉及的利害关系。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Interdisciplinary History features substantive articles, research notes, review essays, and book reviews relating historical research and work in applied fields-such as economics and demographics. Spanning all geographical areas and periods of history, topics include: - social history - demographic history - psychohistory - political history - family history - economic history - cultural history - technological history
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