Becoming Salmon: Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish Volume 55

(Book #55 in the California Studies in Food and Culture Series)

by Marianne Elisabeth Lien

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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. In this careful and nuanced study, Marianne Elisabeth Lien explores how the growth of marine domestication has blurred traditional distinctions between fish and animals, recasting farmed fish as sentient beings, capable of feeling pain and subject to animal-welfare legislation. Drawing on fieldwork on and off...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520280571

ISBN13:9780520280571

Release Date:June 2015

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:232 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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Animals Cooking Cooking Pets Pets & Animal Care Social Science Social Sciences

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Becoming Salmon: Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish Volume 55

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