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Long in the Horn: An Agricultural Anthropology of Livestock Improvement
Author(s) -
Brown Tad
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
culture, agriculture, food and environment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 2153-9561
pISSN - 2153-9553
DOI - 10.1111/cuag.12025
Subject(s) - livestock , endangered species , breed , french horn , geography , sociality , population , genetic resources , selection (genetic algorithm) , animal husbandry , resource (disambiguation) , agriculture , agroforestry , biology , ecology , sociology , microbiology and biotechnology , archaeology , forestry , demography , computer science , pedagogy , computer network , artificial intelligence
Abstract This article explores the evolutionary history of P ineywoods cattle, an endangered breed of landrace cattle in the southeastern U nited S tates, including recent efforts by the P ineywoods C attle R egistry & B reeders A ssociation to conserve the remaining diversity within the population. The human dimension of the breed's development is important to both the history of selection within herds and the ongoing process of conservation. There exists a need for applied anthropology to engage with in situ animal genetic resource conservation because the sociality of livestock breeding necessarily involves both humans and livestock.