Fences in the borderland

Technique, landscape and the architectures of domestication in the Brazilian-Uruguayan Pampa

Bibliographic Data

ID2489189
AuthorsC Sordi (0000-0003-2334-8096, Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume16
Publication date2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1809-4341 • E-ISSN: 1809-4341
PublisherAssociação Brasileira de Antropologia (PUBLISHER • BR)
DOI10.1590/1809-43412019v16d600
OpenAlexW2991416338
SCIELO_PIDS1809-43412019000100600
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

Recent perspectives on domestication have emphasized the importance of technical objects and other environmental elements as mediators of the relations between humans, animals and the many landscapes they inhabit. Using the concept of 'architecture of domestication', proposed by Anderson and others (2017), this article investigates the role of alambrados (wire and wooden fences) in the context of animal husbandry in the Brazilian-Uruguayan Pampa, the technical processes involved in their construction, as well as the new configurations and uses for these structures that have emerged along with the biological invasion of European wild boars (Sus scrofa) in the region. I will show that the alambrados are key elements in the difference between positive direct action and negative indirect action in relation to the animals of the herd within the Pampeano system of domestication

Archaeology · Biology · Domestication · Geography · Herd · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Architecture · Ecology

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