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Human-bear encounters through affects and emotions

By consulting Russian folklore and ethnographic data from the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century about indigenous communities living in the region of the Amur river in Siberia such as the Nanai, Ulchi, Udege and Nivkhi I will examine human encounters with bears evolving around the bear ceremony. I will acknowledge these human-animal interactions as the encounters between individual animals and individual humans through which bears and humans affected each other bodily and emotionally. The contribution will examine what emotions might have occurred as a result of the human-animal encounter - such as, living in the close vicinity of the bear, killing the bear and then dismembering or eating the animal. By following notions that in human-animal relationships, affect and emotion are not solely the property of humans but the animal is also affected by the human I will suggest that individual encounters between bears and humans created powerful affects for individual of both species. Through example of human-bear encounters the paper will address the ambiguity of human- animal relations, the fluidity and changeability of these interactions across different conceptual spaces and emotional registers related to animals that are hunted, tended to in the settlements, killed and eaten.

bears and humans ; affects ; emotions ; East Siberia ; ethnographies

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