Dear All,
Please find below the abstract for a session we shall be hosting at the
Theoretical Archaeology Group conference which will be held at Southampton
University, December 15th-17th 2008.
If anyone is interested in giving a paper it would be great to hear from
you, I believe the deadline for the first call for papers is the 1st
September. Abstracts can be submitted via the TAG website:
http://www.tagconference.org/submit-abstract
As we are hoping to explore this topic from a variety of perspectives the
session is not specifically bones based, therefore if you have friends or
colleagues you think this session may appeal to please feel free to pass it on!
I hope this session will be of interest to some of you out there and look
forward to hearing from you.
Kerry Harris
Brian Boyd
Yannis Hamilakis
Session abstract:
Engaging with wilderness: the perception and social role of the "wild" in
farming societies
Through this session we would like to explore the role of ‘the wild’ in
farming societies. We would like to move beyond the notion of the wild, be
it animals, plants or the landscape, as simply opposed to domestic in a
structuralist mode, and the ideas that view it simply as an exploitable
emergency resource base. We wish instead to reconsider it in terms of a
different and fluid set of relationships with the environment beyond the
everyday. We suggest that the wild may be a realm, albeit of mutable and
permeable boundaries, in which the temporality of the rhythms of
agricultural and domestic life are transcended; an arena of embodied
engaging with the unfamiliar; and a place where unconventional, deviant or
subversive social practices may take place. With this in mind we would like
to consider the ways in which participation in these realms or relationships
would have contributed to the negotiation of social relationships in the past.
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