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The Sport of Kings is an ethnography of the British racing industry based upon two years of participant observation in Newmarket, the international headquarters of flat racing. Racing in Britain provides a lens through which ideas of class, status, tradition and hierarchy can be examined in an environment which is both superficially familiar and richly exotic. This book explores concepts about 'nature' specific to thoroughbred racehorse breeding, and pursues the idea that in making statements about animals, we reveal something of ourselves. It explains the action that takes place on racecourses, in training yards, on studs and at bloodstock auctions. It analyses the consumption of racing through betting on the racecourse and in betting shops, and it proffers an insightful description of a unique class system: that of the humans and animals involved in the production of British flat racing.

Horse industry. --- Horse racing. --- Horse racing - England - Newmarket. --- Race horses. --- Thoroughbred horse. --- Thoroughbred horse --- Race horses --- Horse racing --- Horse industry --- Recreation & Sports --- Social Sciences --- Breeding --- Equine industry --- Horse business --- Flat racing --- Horseracing --- Racehorses --- American thoroughbred horse --- Animal industry --- Horse sports --- Racing --- Competition horses --- Working animals --- Horse breeds --- Anglo-Arab horse --- Anthropology --- Chevaux de course --- Éleveurs de chevaux --- Course de chevaux --- Classes sociales --- Anthropologie culturelle --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grande-Bretagne Pur-sang --- Élevage --- Aspect social --- Newmarket (Suffolk, GB) --- Angleterre --- Aspects sociaux

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People have been racing horses for thousands of years, all over the world. Yet horseracing is often presented as an English creation that was exported, unaltered, to the colonies. This Companion investigates the intersection of racing and literature, art, history and finance, casting the sport as the product of cross-class, cosmopolitan and international influences. Chapters on racing history and the origins of the thoroughbred demonstrate how the gift of a fast horse could forge alliances between nations, and the extent to which international power dynamics can be traced back to racetracks and breeding sheds. Leading scholars and journalists draw on original research and firsthand experience to create portraits of the racetracks of Newmarket, Kentucky, the Curragh, and Hunter Valley, exposing readers to new racing frontiers in China and Dubai as well. A unique resource for fans and scholars alike, reopening essential questions regarding the legacy and importance of horseracing today.

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Domestication has often seemed a matter of the distant past, a series of distinct events involving humans and other species that took place long ago. Today, as genetic manipulation continues to break new barriers in scientific and medical research, we appear to be entering an age of biological control. Are we also writing a new chapter in the history of domestication? Where the Wild Things Are Now explores the relevance of domestication for anthropologists and scholars in related fields who are concerned with understanding ongoing change in processes affecting humans as well as other species. From the pet food industry and its critics to salmon farming in Tasmania, the protection of endangered species in Vietnam and the pigeon fanciers who influenced Darwin, Where the Wild Things Are Now provides an urgently needed re-examination of the concept of domestication against the shifting background of relationships between humans, animals and plants.

Domestication --- Domestic animals --- Plants, Cultivated --- Human-animal relationships --- Human-plant relationships