The Benefits of the Cold and Domestication: A New Understanding of Human–Animal Partnerships for Thriving...

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Florian Stammler (University of Lapland, Finland) Hiroki Takakura (Tohoku University, Japan)

The Benefits of the Cold and Domestication

A New Understanding of Human–Animal Partnerships for Thriving in Extreme Environments

Florian Stammler (University of Lapland, Finland), Hiroki Takakura (Tohoku University, Japan)

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Routledge
28 April 2025

Animals & society; Social & cultural anthropology; Human geography; Biodiversity; Social impact of environmental issues

Series: Arctic Worlds

This book explores cooperation between humans and animals in extreme environments and contends that understanding domestication is crucial to explaining how life is possible in such conditions.

The chapters draw on work from anthropology, genetics, law, and geography, with a range of ethnographic case studies from cold environments. The contributors offer new evidence for rethinking the dichotomy of trust vs domination previously used to characterize human-animal relations. They show how humans and animals partner for survival, and how a cold environment does not merely threaten existence but rather creates opportunities. Domestication is presented as a continuous, mutually beneficial human-animal relationship of becoming familiar with each other and the surrounding environment, which can lead to a symbiotic partnership of multiple agents for adapting to changes including a warming climate.

This volume will be relevant to scholars from anthropology, geography, and related disciplines interested in human-animal relations, ecology, and the environment, particularly in the North.

Edited by: Florian Stammler (University of Lapland Finland), Hiroki Takakura (Tohoku University, Japan)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780367463700
ISBN 10: 0367463709
Series: Arctic Worlds
Pages: 310
Publication Date: 28 April 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Florian Stammler is Research Professor in Anthropology and coordinates the Anthropology Research Team at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, Finland. He has lived with people and led research in Arctic Russia, Finland, and Greenland, and published extensively on human–animal relations, Arctic extractive industries, oral history, and youth well-being. Hiroki Takakura is a social anthropologist and Director and Professor at the Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University, Japan. His research interests cover human–animal relations, climate change, disaster resilience, ethnicity, and arctic human history including the ethnohistory of Siberia and Northeast Asia.