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Live Stock and Dead Things: The Archaeology of Zoopolitics between Domestication and Modernity

By (author) Hannah Chazin

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Reconceptualizes human-animal relationships and their political significance in ancient and modern societies. Â In Live Stock and Dead Things, Hannah Chazin combines zooarchaeology and anthropology to challenge familiar narratives about the role of nonhuman animals in the rise of modern societies. Conventional views of this process tend to see a mostly linear development from hunter-gatherer societies, to horticultural and pastoral ones, to large-scale agricultural ones, and then industrial ones. Along the way, traditional accounts argue that owning livestock as property, along with land and other valuable commodities, introduced social inequality and stratification. Against this, Chazin raises a provocative question: What if domestication wasnâ€™t the origin of instrumentalizing nonhuman animals after all? Â Chazin argues that these conventional narratives are inherited from conjectural histories and ignore the archaeological data. In her view, the category of â€œdomesticationâ€ flattens the more complex dimensions of humansâ€™ relationship to herd animals. In the bookâ€™s first half, Chazin offers a new understanding of the political possibilities of pastoralism, one that recognizes the powerful role herd animals have played in shaping human notions of power and authority. In the second half, she takes readers into her archaeological fieldwork in the South Caucasus, which sheds further light on herd animalsâ€™ transformative effect on the economy, social life, and ritual. Appealing to anthropologists and archaeologists alike, this daring book offers a reconceptualization of human-animal relationships and their political significance.

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