scholarly journals Lipid residue analysis on Swifterbant pottery (c. 5000–3800 cal BC) in the Lower Rhine-Meuse area (the Netherlands) and its implications for human-animal interactions in relation to the Neolithisation process

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 102812
Author(s):  
Özge Demirci ◽  
Alexandre Lucquin ◽  
Canan Çakırlar ◽  
Oliver E. Craig ◽  
Daan C.M. Raemaekers
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Residue Analysis ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Lower Rhine

scholarly journals First lipid residue analysis of Early Neolithic pottery from Swifterbant (the Netherlands, ca. 4300–4000 BC)

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Özge Demirci ◽  
Alexandre Lucquin ◽  
Oliver E. Craig ◽  
Daan C.M. Raemaekers
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Residue Analysis ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Neolithic Pottery

A ‘monster with human visage’: The orangutan, savagery, and the borders of humanity in the global Enlightenment

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 80-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Sebastiani
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Previous Period ◽  
Human Animal

To what extent did the debate on the orangutan contribute to the global Enlightenment? This article focuses on the first 150 years of the introduction, dissection, and public exposition of the so-called ‘orangutan’ in Europe, between the 1630s, when the first specimens arrived in the Netherlands, and the 1770s, when the British debate about slavery and abolitionism reframed the boundaries between the human and animal kingdoms. Physicians, natural historians, antiquarians, philosophers, geographers, lawyers, and merchants all contributed to the knowledge of the orangutan, while also reshaping the boundaries of humanity: when the human/animal divide narrowed, the divide between ‘savage’ and ‘civilized’ peoples crystallized, becoming wider than in any previous period.

scholarly journals NEW INSIGHTS CONCERNING IDENTIFICATION, MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION OF INDIGENOUS TREES AND SHRUBS IN THE NETHERLANDS

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 149-167
Author(s):  
Norbertus Cornelis Maria MAES ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Woody Species ◽  
Natura 2000 ◽  
Landscape Elements ◽  
Climate Zones ◽  
Indigenous Trees ◽  
Ancient Woodlands ◽  
Trees And Shrubs ◽  
Management And Conservation ◽  
Lower Rhine

In densely populated European countries like the Netherlands, old landscape elements such as ancient woodlands and ancient hedges are today rare. Owing to the introduction of exotic species and indigenous trees and shrubs imported from other climate zones, recognition of truly wild, i.e. autochthonous, individuals and populations is now problematical, posing challenges for forest management agencies, particularly at Natura 2000 sites. The author has developed a method for recognising genetically pure wild woody species, based on characteristics of the plant itself and those of the growing site. With this method, explained here, around 70% of the Netherlands has been surveyed, along with much of Flanders and part of the lower Rhine region of Germany. The results are illustrated with reference to two Dutch ancient woodlands, where new insights were obtained in terms of native status of the woody species and the ‘authenticity’ of the tree and shrub layer.

scholarly journals Gene editing of livestock

Elem Sci Anth ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Senna Middelveld ◽  
Phil Macnaghten
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Gene Editing ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Sociotechnical Imaginaries ◽  
Sociological Inquiry ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Radical Transformation ◽  
Important Site

Gene editing technologies allow users to make in vivo (live) changes to an organism’s DNA. Advances in the field of gene editing have made it arguably more precise, efficient, flexible, and cheaper compared to previous technologies. This has generated an upsurge of interest in gene editing and its governance, including in livestock applications. Although gene editing in livestock promises benefits, it also raises technical, ethical, and societal questions alongside the prospect of (radical) transformation. Since the technology is still to be developed into marketable products, it is the designs, visions, or what we term “sociotechnical imaginaries” that shape gene editing technologies and that represent an important site for sociological inquiry. In this article, based on an analysis of interviews with breeding company representatives and agricultural scientists in the Netherlands, we analyze the assumptions, values, and commitments that underpin their imaginaries. These imaginaries matter, since their negotiation will help structure how the technology develops and how it will subsequently transform livestock and human–animal relations. In our analysis, we analyze the discursive practices from the interview data distilling three sociotechnical imaginaries that shape and underpin how respondents discuss gene editing in livestock. Elaborating the sociotechnical imaginary concept to make it more amenable to the emerging dynamics of gene editing in livestock, we show how imaginaries need to be studied “in place” and in terms of “material practices.” Even though each of the imaginaries frame livestock gene editing as desirable and beneficial, they nevertheless have differential effects in how they structure industry, researcher, government, and consumer/citizen relations. We conclude by discussing how and why sociotechnical imaginaries on livestock gene editing matter and their implications for governance and research.

HET DODEN VAN DIEREN IN NEDERLAND, 1860-1940

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-347
Author(s):  
Peter Koolmees
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Animal Protection ◽  
Animal Physiology ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Cruelty To Animals

THE KILLING OF ANIMALS IN THE NETHERLANDS, 1860-1940 A inconvenient part of the human-animal relationship This article explores the rise of the animal protection movement and its propaganda to improve the humane killing of animals in the Netherlands. From 1880 onwards, veterinarians became advisors of animal protection societies because they were considered objective judges with scientific knowledge of animal physiology. Between 1880 and 1922 cruelty to animals decreased significantly by the development and introduction of asphyxiation cages for pets and stunning equipment for slaughter animals. Although criticized, ritual slaughter remained legal. The debate on killing methods for animals with the tensions between scientific knowledge and emotions has been with us for one and a half centuries and continues today.

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