ANT415H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Animal Husbandry, Anthropogenic Biome, List Of Domesticated Animals
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Domestication relationships mutualistic, both benefit: animals get care, protection, feeding, people acquire food, companionship, shelter, raw material. Greater concentration of animals than possible in wild: seasonal availability, population aggregation/dispersion animals can be kept in proximity to human habitations. Different relationships with different animals allowed people to live in different ways: required people to live in different ways to ensure the survival of these animals. Agriculture: intensive cultivation of plant foods, use animal power; dependent. Pastoralism: subsistence system based on herding of animals. Animal husbandry: breeding and raising of livestock. Richard meadow change in human-animal relationships, humans shifted attention from dead animal to living animal and its offspring. Clutton-brock: animal bred in captivity for economic profit humans control breeding movement and food. Ducos: integrated as objects into the socio-economic organization of the human group. Process of domestication capture taming control of breeding intentional selection of traits.
