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Arctic Domestication: an old theme, with special relevance to anthropology 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.

Field ‘laboratories’ and interdisciplinarity: o ethnography o science studies o environmental archaeology o genetic sampling the idea of a field laboratory complicates the idea of ‘person’ and ‘place’ by researching locales where domestication arises we therefore treat tundra encampments and university laboratory as sites of equal status, not to mention enskillment that flows from animals to people or from animals to other animals. in terms of ‘data’ we will work with four traditions: