This book retells American southern history from feral animals' perspective, examining social, cultural, and evolutionary consequences of domestication and feralization.
This book retells American southern history from feral animals' perspective, examining social, cultural, and evolutionary consequences of domestication and feralization.
Abraham H. Gibson is a Fellow in Residence at the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine. He also teaches in the Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania. He has published extensively and has earned fellowships from the National Science Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
Inhaltsangabe
1. The trouble with ferality: domestication as coevolution and the nature of broken symbioses; 2. Making and breaking acquaintances: the origins of wildness, domestication, and ferality in prehistoric Eurasia; 3. When ferality reigned: establishing an open range in the colonial South; 4. Nascent domestication initiatives and their effects on ferality: claiming dominion in the antebellum South; 5. Anthropogenic improvement and assaults on ferality: divergent fates in the industrializing South; 6. Everything in its right place: wild, domestic, and feral populations in the modern South; Epilogue: cultivating ferality in the Anthropocene.
1. The trouble with ferality: domestication as coevolution and the nature of broken symbioses; 2. Making and breaking acquaintances: the origins of wildness, domestication, and ferality in prehistoric Eurasia; 3. When ferality reigned: establishing an open range in the colonial South; 4. Nascent domestication initiatives and their effects on ferality: claiming dominion in the antebellum South; 5. Anthropogenic improvement and assaults on ferality: divergent fates in the industrializing South; 6. Everything in its right place: wild, domestic, and feral populations in the modern South; Epilogue: cultivating ferality in the Anthropocene.
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