Becoming Salmon :Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish - California Studies in Food and Culture

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Becoming Salmon

Becoming Salmon :Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish - California Studies in Food and Culture

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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 economic context of industrial food production and the materiality of human-animal relations, this book highlights the fragile and contingent relational practices that constitute salmon aquaculture and the multiple ways of "becoming salmon" that emerge as a result.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780520280571
ISBN10 0520280571
Number Of Pages 232
Item Weight 318 g
Product Dimensions 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Publisher / Reseller University of California Press
Format paperback
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"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 our 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

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Author's Bio

Marianne Elisabeth Lien is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway.

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