Spawning Modern Fish: Transnational Comparison in the Making of Japanese Salmon (Culture, Place, and Nature)

Swanson, Heather Anne

ISBN 10: 0295750391 / ISBN 13: 9780295750392

Edité par University of Washington Press, 2022

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• Titre: Spawning Modern Fish: Transnational Comparison in the Making of Japanese Salmon (Culture, Place, and Nature)
• Éditeur: University of Washington Press
• Date de parution: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0295750391
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780295750392
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Winner of the Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize from the Society for East Asian Anthropology Multispecies ethnography turns its attention to the bodies of fish Since the mid-nineteenth century, agricultural development and fisheries management in northern Japan have been profoundly shaped by how people within and beyond Japan have compared Hokkaido's landscapes to those of other places, as part of efforts to make the new Japanese nation-state more legibly "modern." In doing so, they engaged in non-conforming modes of thinking that reached out to diverse places, including the American West and southern Chile. Today, the comparisons made by Hokkaido fishing industry professionals, scientists, and Ainu indigenous groups between the island's forests, fields, and waters and those of other places around the world continue to dramatically affect the region's approaches to environmental management and its physical landscapes. In this far-ranging ethnography, Heather Anne Swanson shows how this traffic in ideas shapes the course of Hokkaido's development, its fish, and the lives of people on and beyond the island while structuring trade dynamics, political economy, and multispecies relations in watersheds around the globe.

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Heather Anne Swanson is associate professor of anthropology at Aarhus University, Denmark, and director of the Aarhus University Centre for the Environmental Humanities. She received her PhD in anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2013. She is the coeditor of Domestication Gone Wild: Politics and Practices of Multispecies Relations (Duke University Press, 2018) and Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (University of Minnesota Press, 2017). This is her first monograph.

Kalyanakrishnan "Shivi" Sivaramakrishnan is Dinakar Singh Professor of India and South Asia Studies, professor of anthropology, professor of forestry and environmental studies, and codirector of the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University.