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2. 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 Arctic Domestication: • Human-Animal relations in the Arctic traditionally are an awkward fit • Among the ‘cradles’ and ‘hearths’ are new types of domestic animals, as well as puzzling ‘hybrids’ • These relations are often ‘emplaced’ in mindful landscapes.

3. 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 enskillmentthat flows from animals to people or from animals to other animals. • in terms of ‘data’ we will work with four traditions: Field ‘laboratories’ and interdisciplinarity: • ethnography • science studies • environmental archaeology • genetic sampling