Pigs and profits

Hybrids of animals, technology and humans in Danish industrialised farming

Datos Bibliográficos

ID18965128
AutoresI Anneberg (0000-0002-1043-5804, Aarhus University), Mette Vaarst (0000-0003-2830-2847, Institute of Animal Science; Aarhus University; Blichers Allé 20 Tjele 8830 Denmark), N Bubandt (0000-0003-1655-6727, Aarhus University)
Año2013
Volumen21
Número4
Páginas542-559
Fecha de publicación2013-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0964-0282 • E-ISSN: 1469-8676
EditorialBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1469-8676.12049
OpenAlexW1913482540
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas25

Farm animals live and die as part of a food production system rich in paradoxes. One central paradox of modern farming revolves around the classic anthropological opposition between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’. Inspired by Bruno Latour's diagnosis of the processes of purification and mediation that attend the separation between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ in the modern constitution, we trace how this paradox plays itself out on Danish pig farms. The paper argues that, although they have to be consistently ignored, hybrids of various kinds are essential to the co-production of meat and profit on industrial, debt-ridden and highly effective farms in the Western world

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