Becoming salmon : aquaculture and the domestication of a fish /

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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. As fish are enrolled in new regimes of marine domestication, traditional distinctions between fish and animals are reconfigured, recasting farmed fish as...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lien, Marianne E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Series:California studies in food and culture ; 55.
Subjects:
Salmon farming.
Salmon farming > Social aspects.
Salmoniculture.
Salmoniculture > Aspect social.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Salmon farming
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : salmon in the making
  • Tracking salmon
  • Becoming hungry : introducing the salmon domus
  • Becoming biomass : appetite, numbers, and managerial control
  • Becoming scalable : speed, feed, and temporal alignments
  • Becoming sentient : choreographies of caring and killing
  • Becoming alien : back to the river
  • Tails.

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