Reminder - please send abstracts in by the end of tomorrow if possible.
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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
Bestial Mirrors: Using Animals to Construct Human Identities in Medieval
Europe
(Animals as Material Culture in the Middle Ages 3)
A one-day conference hosted by the Vienna Institute for Archaeological
Science on Monday 19th March, 2007.
Full details, including registration, can be found at:
http://www.beasts-in-the-woods.org/conference.html
Synopsis
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Animals played a fundamental role in the conscious and unconscious
construction of diverse social identities in medieval European
societies. 'Medieval' is defined in its broadest sense: from the 5th to
16th centuries AD. Papers are invited on any aspect of this use of
animals, exploring questions such as:
+ To what extent did the use of animals as food in the construction of
distinctive cuisines, reflect religious, political or commercial
ideologies?
+ Did the butchery and processing of animal remains leave distinct group
or individual signatures?
+ Is it possible to distinguish between urban and rural 'identities' by
comparing their relative use of animals? Were animals used in the
construction of civic identities?
+ Did individuals or groups use animals to express their own or 'other'
identities outside the culinary sphere in, for example, visual display?
+ Were particular species, or animal-related activities such as hunting
and fishing, associated with distinct groups?
+ Did these patterns change over time, vary from region to region, from
one ecological context to another, and if so can we account for this?
Methodological papers are also invited, exploring issues such as:
+ Is it possible and desirable to integrate various forms of data (e.g.
faunal remains, artefacts, written sources) to answer specific research
questions?
+ What is the perception of zooarchaeology (or archaeozoology) by
historians, and vice versa?
Post-graduate students as well as post-doctoral researchers are warmly
invited to present papers lasting 20 minutes on any aspect of this
topic, and should email an abstract of 150 words no later than 1st
February, 2007 to:
Günther Karl Kunst: [log in to unmask]
or Aleks Pluskowski: [log in to unmask]
or send a hardcopy to:
Günther Karl Kunst
Vienna Institute of Archaeological Science
Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Telephone: +43 1 4277 403 06
Fax: +43 1 4277 9 535
We look forward to seeing you there!
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