Nested Houses: Domestication dynamics of human–wasp relations in contemporary rural Japan

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• 作者：Charlotte L. R. Payne ; Joshua D. Evans
• 关键词：Domestication ; Ecology ; Edible insects ; Japan ; Traditional food ; Vespula ; Wasp
• 刊名：Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：13
• 期：1
• 全文大小：1608KB
• 刊物主题：Complementary & Alternative Medicine; Biodiversity; Ecology;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1746-4269
• 卷排序：13

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BackgroundDomestication is an important and contested concept. Insects are used as food worldwide, and while some have been described as domesticated and even ‘semi-domesticated’, the assumptions and implications of this designation are not clear. The purpose of this paper is to explore these aspects of insect domestication, and broader debates in domestication studies, through the case of edible wasps in central rural Japan.