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Becoming Salmon: Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish Volume 55
✍️ Lien, Marianne Elisabeth
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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. As fish are enrolled in new regimes of marine domestication, traditional distinctions between fish and animals are reconfigured, recasting farmed fish as sentient beings, capable of feeling pain and subject to animal welfare legislation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Norway and Australia, the author traces farmed Atlantic salmon through contemporary industrial practices, and shows how salmon are bred to be hungry, globally mobile, and alien in their watersheds of origin. Attentive to the economic context of industrial food production as well as the mundane practices of caring for fish, it offers novel perspectives on domestication, human-animal relations, and food production"--Provided by publisher.
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Because it functions as an ethnographic study rather than a traditional cookbook, casual home cooks looking for dinner inspiration or step-by-step culinary instructions will likely find it ill-suited to their needs. Instead, it belongs squarely on the shelf for food writing, cultural studies, and critical food systems analysis. Readers drawn to the sociology of eating and the history of animal domestication will appreciate its rigorous approach, while those seeking practical kitchen guidance should look elsewhere.
