Abstract Domestication is a set of processes that requires active reconfigurations of interspecies relations, environments, and technologies. In this view, both ethnographic and historical sources help us track the exact ways that domestication as a practice actively reveals and conceals relations of power among people and between people and other animals. Two pertinent cases—training rats in Tanzania to detect landmines and releasing mosquitoes to deter the transmission of pathogenic viruses in Brazil—take place in contexts where animals are being modified to achieve certain developmental, medical, or humanitarian goals. These animals, like any in the history of domestication, breach boundaries, crossing wild and domestic categories, in these cases at the moment and experience of being bitten. These moments draw our attention to the stakes involved in thinking about domestication.

Luisa Reis-Castro

Jia Hui Lee

The Journal of Interdisciplinary History

The Journal of Interdisciplinary History features substantive articles, research notes, review essays, and book reviews relating historical research and work in applied fields-such as economics and demographics. Spanning all geographical areas and periods of history, topics include:    - social history   - demographic history   - psychohistory   - political history   - family history   - economic history   - cultural history   - technological history

The Journal of Interdisciplinary History publishes substantive articles, research notes, review essays, and book reviews that relate historical research to applied fields such as economics and demographics. Covering all geographical areas and periods of history, topics include social history, demographic history, psychohistory, political history, family history, economic history, cultural history, and technological history.

《Journal of Interdisciplinary History》期刊刊登与历史研究及应用领域（如经济学和人口统计学）相关的实质性文章、研究笔记、评论文章和书评。该期刊涵盖所有地理区域和历史时期，主题包括：社会历史、人口历史、心理历史、政治历史、家庭历史、经济历史、文化历史和技术历史。

Category	Quartile
历史学	4
历史学, 历史学	4

Bites, Blood, Boundaries: Rats, Mosquitoes, and Domestication across Disciplines

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