Arctic Domestication - Humans and Animals across the North David G. Anderson University of Aberdeen Årshögtid, Umeå Universitet 18 oktober 2013

Arctic Domestication: domestication classically defined as a sudden relationship of domination, which divides the world into ‘wild’ and ‘cultivated’ types in the history of the sciences, linked to colonialism and projects of improvement recent research calls into question older models o Human-Animal relations in the Arctic traditionally are an awkward fit o Among the ‘cradles’ and ‘hearths’ are new types of domestic animals, as well as puzzling ‘hybrids’ o These relations are often ‘emplaced’ in mindful landscapes.

Three Arctic species tell their stories: o Fish although a ‘newly’ domesticated laboratory species have long supported complex relationships in Northern lands o Dogs, said to the be the ‘first’ species to be domesticated, often participate in complex social networks both with people and other animals o Reindeer/caribou, a classic ‘Arctic species’, have proven to come in and out of various forms of domestication with such intensity as to question the definition of the term itself. Across the circumpolar North one often finds a ‘triad’ of dogs, reindeer/caribou and fish

What lies between ‘Trust’ and ‘Domination’? Antler trimming, Bazarnaia River, Zabaikal Krai 4 Mobile Home with 8 reindeer Gorbiachin River, Taimyr Caribou monitoring, NWT Canada Hunting dog with lead reindeer: В. Давыдов

Exploring Ethnographies of ‘Tameness’ 5

Thank you! 6 arctidomus.org ERC Advanced Grant ‘Arctic Domestication’

7 Watching a herd take form, Bazarnaia River, Zabaikal Krai