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SUMMARY:Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture (Domestication Practi
 ces across History) - Speaker to be confirmed
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CONTACT:Samantha Peel
DESCRIPTION:The Domestication Practices across History reading group was s
 et up in order to investigate the deep history and global spread of what m
 ight be termed 'domestication practices': the creation or breeding of new 
 varieties of plants and animals. The goal of this group is to consider how
  different domestication practices have come about and spread – or faile
 d to spread – across the globe. We will begin with the domestication of 
 crop plants in the Neolithic\, before moving chronologically all the way t
 o twentieth-century histories of genetic modification. Throughout our long
  journey through history we will explore several different bio-techniques 
 or technologies\, from acclimatisation to hybridisation\, Mendelian theory
  to mutation breeding.\n\nWhat role have theories of heredity played in th
 e development and uptake of these practices? How did advocates of these pr
 actices succeed or fail in convincing others to adopt them? By considering
  these and other questions\, we shall engage with the use of domestication
  practices as objects of historical study\, including their promise and li
 mitations. Readings will consist of book chapters and articles on the hist
 ory of plant and animal domestication\, breeding\, agriculture and biotech
 nology.\n\nThis reading group is convened by Matt Holmes. If you have any 
 queries about the events or reading\, please don't hesitate to email. You 
 can find details of this event here: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28591\n\n
  \n\nMichaelmas Term - 4 November 2019:\n\nJames C Scott\, ‘Chapter Two:
  Landscaping the World: The Domus Complex’ in Against the Grain: A Deep 
 History of the Earliest States (New Haven\, CT: Yale University Press\, 20
 17): pp. 68-92.\n\nIan Hodder\, Gary O Rollefson\, Ofer Bar-Yosef and Trev
 or Watkins\, Review of Jacques Cauvin\, The Birth of the Gods and the Orig
 ins of Agriculture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press\, 2000)\, in Cam
 bridge Archaeological Journal 11\, 1 (2001): pp. 105-121.\n\n \n\ngloknos 
 is initially funded for 5 years by the European Research Council through a
  Consolidator Grant awarded to Dr Inanna Hamati-Ataya for her project ARTE
 FACT (2017-2022). ARTEFACT is funded by the European Research Council unde
 r the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and
  Innovation (ERC grant agreement no. 724451). For information about glokno
 s or ARTEFACT please contact the administrator in the first instance.
LOCATION:CRASSH Meeting Room\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cam
 bridge\, CB3 9DT
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