Description

The concept of domestication has fascinated and defined how humans view history. Domestication itself is a descriptor of a relationship between humans, plants, and animals. Pueblo world views also define the relationships between humans, plants, and the natural world in very specific ways that are often in opposition to western concepts of domestication. Included in the differences are the idea of collective consciousness and reflection that can be found in Pueblo communities, present and past. This lecture focuses on domestication, Pueblo understandings of relationships with the natural world, and how society organizes itself around the definitions of domestication.