Therianthropes and Transformation in San Art

Guenther, M.

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“…Hunters tend to view wild animals as their equals, often as persons with souls, e.g., [ 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 ]. Domestic animals, although they may be objects of pride and affection, are usually seen as lesser beings, e.g., [ 34 , 35 , 36 ].…”

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Wild Meets Domestic in the Near Eastern Neolithic

Russell

2022

Animals

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The categories of wild and domestic are one of the classic ways the nature/culture dichotomy manifests itself in human interactions with the environment. Some argue that this distinction is not helpful and a projection of modern thought, and certainly the boundaries are complicated. However, we should try to determine in each case whether it was meaningful to particular people in the past. Here I explore whether wild and domestic were relevant concepts to the inhabitants of the Neolithic Near East in their relations with animals around the time when livestock herding began. Drawing on depictions of animals and the treatment of living animals and their remains, I examine three case studies (Cyprus, Upper Mesopotamia, and Çatalhöyük in central Anatolia) to evaluate whether emic distinctions between wild and domestic existed. I conclude that this was in fact a crucial distinction that shaped economic choices as well as ritual activities. Differential treatment of wild and domestic animals indicates that they were accorded different forms of personhood. The particular nature of human relations with wild animals helped shape the spread of both wild and domestic animals.

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Wild Meets Domestic in the Near Eastern Neolithic

Russell

2022

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“…20052015), and by many others who have either published on specific cases of hunter-gatherer ecologies, ontologies, and animisms or contributed to theoretical debates in the fields of relational ontologies and new animism, as well as by scholars from the fields of posthumanism, multispecies studies, and environmental humanities. I also drew on writers who have engaged with ontologies of other KhoeSan groups in Southern Africa (Guenther, 2015;2020a;2020b;Hannis & Sullivan 2018;Low 2007;Ninkova 2022;Schnegg 2019;2021;Sullivan, 2013;. With this new academic equipment, I revisited the material gathered between 2000 and 2006 (interviews, field notes, field trip protocols, and datasets on plants and places) and looked at it in new light.…”

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Thinking with relations in nature conservation? A case study of the Etosha National Park and Haiǁom

Dieckmann

2023

Royal Anthropological Inst

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The area of the Etosha National Park in Namibia has been inhabited for many centuries by Haiǁom, a group of (now former) hunter‐gatherers. In 1907, Etosha was proclaimed as a game reserve, although Haiǁom were still allowed to live in the area until they were expelled in the 1950s due to then‐dominant ideas of fortress conservation. In recent years, Haiǁom have been provided with several resettlement farms by the Namibian government as a reaction to the colonial land dispossession. In this article, I explore the onto‐epistemology of Haiǁom (i.e. their being in and knowing the Etosha area), focusing on their relations with the land and with human and beyond‐the‐human beings before their eviction. I argue that the eviction implies not only economic marginalization but also social deprivation, which is inadequately addressed with resettlement. I suggest that thinking with relations, illustrated with the Haiǁom case, would call for other solutions in the context of measures taken for past land dispossessions and would open new paths for Namibia's nature conservation initiatives.

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Therianthropes and Transformation in San Art

Cited by 2 publications

References 23 publications

Wild Meets Domestic in the Near Eastern Neolithic

Wild Meets Domestic in the Near Eastern Neolithic

Thinking with relations in nature conservation? A case study of the Etosha National Park and Haiǁom

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