Semiotic dimensions of human attitudes towards other animals: A case of zoological gardens

Mäekivi, Nelly; Maran, Timo

doi:10.12697/sss.2016.44.1-2.12

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“…Uma análise que procure, ainda num intento zoocêntrico, partir do entorno do animal para ascender à humana olvida a impossibilidade de aceder a regimes cognitivos alheios. Do mesmo modo, arribar a uma neutralidade de espécie (species neutrality) é uma aporia biosemiótica (Mäekivi -Maran 2016).…”

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O conjunto faunístico do Cerro dos Castelos de São Brás (Serpa, Portugal) no 3.º milénio a.n.e.: entre a antroposfera e a zooesfera

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O presente artigo procura estudar o conjunto faunístico do Cerro dos Castelos de São Brás (Serpa), do 3.º milénio a.n.e. Este é dominado pelos remanescentes de fauna selvagem, de onde se destaca uma incomum situação de sobrecaça de cervídeos somente paralelizável com o atestado para o Mesolítico. A idade de abate das faunas reporta para uma situação de uso de tracção animal para a agricultura. Por fim, discutir-se-á e teorizar-se-á o papel da zooesfera, na sua interacção com a antroposfera, para aferir putativas especificidades culturais, indagando-se, para tal, sumariamente sobre a ontologia do animal/ animalidade enquadrada na Filosofia da Natureza. Do ponto de vista arqueológico, partir-se-á de São Brás, estando ancorado na reflexão teórica já mencionada, para uma reflexão sobre o conceito de Revolução dos Produtos Secundários e sobre a gestão biótica atestada durante o 3º milénio, trazendo à colação os dados conhecidos para o Centro e Sul português.

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Section: Faseamento Da Faunaunclassified

O conjunto faunístico do Cerro dos Castelos de São Brás (Serpa, Portugal) no 3.º milénio a.n.e.: entre a antroposfera e a zooesfera

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“…(cf. Mäekivi, Maran 2016). In particular, public attitudes toward wild carnivores, foreign and invasive species, and pets depend considerably on cultural communication.…”

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Animal Umwelten in a Changing world: Zoosemiotic Perspectives

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Oma²,

Tønnessen³

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Animals are. A multitude of diff erent species surrounds us in our everyday doings, and infl uences our behaviour and culture. Dogs and cats develop delicate and personal relationships with the families they belong to. Swans and geese are waiting to be fed by passers-by. Th e wing-strokes of doves and jackdaws give a subtle ephemeral atmosphere to our cities. Spiders, snails and snakes are met with surprise or disgust. Beavers are blamed for reshaping the landscapes, and wolves for killing livestock. People and animals engage and interact in a number of ways: from hunting and fi shing to bird-watching, from the help provided by assistance dogs to family holidays in zoological gardens and animal parks. Children's fi rst encounters with the written word oft en take place through animal stories. And many fi ctional animal characters are known and internationally celebrated by name: Lassie, Moby Dick, Bambi, King Kong, etc. None of these interactions would be possible without semiotic processes: perception, communication and interpretation occurring between humans and animals. Sign relations or mediated relations that connect humans with other animal species are the very subject of this collective monograph. We make an inquiry into the semiotic character of diff erent species, study the ways in which humans endow animals with meaning, and analyse how animal sign exchange and communication has coped with environmental change. In this research, our core disciplinary framework is zoosemiotics, the semiotic study of animals-the paradigm that was proposed by the eminent American-Hungarian semiotician Th omas A. Sebeok in the 1960s and that recently had its fi ft ieth anniversary. Our approach is essentially semiotic and biosemiotic. At the same time, we engage in dialogues with ecocriticism, Actor-Network Th eory, posthumanism and other contemporary schools of the humanities, as well as with more practically oriented research topics in visitor studies, animal welfare studies and humananimal studies, not to forget ethology and conservation biology. Th is book is a collective eff ort. Its authors belong to the research group in zoosemiotics and human-animal relations based in the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu in Estonia, and at the University of Stavanger in Norway. Th e two opening chapters are written and edited collectively and present a framework of philosophical, historical, epistemological and methodological matters of zoosemiotic research. Th ese initial considerations are followed by specifi c case studies that have been conducted by individual authors. Th e specifi c chapters, however, have been cross-edited and commented on by other TIMO MARAN ET AL

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Various Shapes of Cultural Biosemiotics

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2017

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Semiotic dimensions of human attitudes towards other animals: A case of zoological gardens

Cited by 8 publications

References 25 publications

O conjunto faunístico do Cerro dos Castelos de São Brás (Serpa, Portugal) no 3.º milénio a.n.e.: entre a antroposfera e a zooesfera

O conjunto faunístico do Cerro dos Castelos de São Brás (Serpa, Portugal) no 3.º milénio a.n.e.: entre a antroposfera e a zooesfera

Animal Umwelten in a Changing world: Zoosemiotic Perspectives

Various Shapes of Cultural Biosemiotics

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