Cattle, Fracking, and the Problem of Latent Control in American Settler Ecology
By Néstor L. Silva, Stanford University § In May of 2017, I visited a frack site along with a group of petroleum …
Joel Palmer’s Defiant Cattle Drive Through Grand Ronde, 1874
In 1874, Joel Palmer was again an independent contractor for the Indian service, after having completed a two-year stint as the Indian …
A Plantation inside the Cow: Capitalist Indigestions and the Rumen Microbial Universe
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2018 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. …
Domestication revisited?
Domestication is by most used as a term for the biologically traceable subordination of animals under human control. But anthropologists have for …
Lt. William A. Slacum, United States Spy in the Oregon Territory, & Chief Slacum of the Clowewalla
Lt. William A. Slacum, a Navy purser, was sent by the President, through the Department of State, as a special investigator to …
21st century ‘barbarians’: Modernity, the breeding of fighting bulls and EU farming subsidies
This is an extended version of an article orginally published in The Conversation. I am grateful to the editors there for their …