Naslov
Animals in Mesolithic and Neolithic worldviews. Possible challenges to the dichotomies.

Autori
Pasarić, Maja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, ostalo

Skup
23rd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists

Mjesto i datum
Maastricht, Nizozemska, 31.08.2017. - 03.09.2017

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Mesolithic, Neolithic, animals, worldviews

Sažetak
Cultural processes of domestication are often considered to be associated with significant changes to human-animal relationships, sometimes as a fundamental break from perceiving animals as different kind of persons to seeing them as property. Such notions have influenced different ways of interpreting Mesolithic and Neolithic archaeological assemblages. Dichotomies created by the construction of opposing identities of hunter- gatherers and farmers leave little space for investigating possible diversities of worldviews, sets of beliefs and practices that reflect and construct the ways people related with their environments and interacted with animals. By exploring notions about personhood, care for the environment, ownership and other concepts, the paper aims to challenge the contrasting narratives about social relations with animals perceived as friends and persons among hunter-gatherers and those about control and dominance driven attitudes towards domestic animals that have been attributed to farming communities. The paper draws from North European Mesolithic and Neolithic case studies and from the Russian language ethnographic literature about East Siberian hunter-gathering and herding communities for the development of ethnographic comparative frameworks.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

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