Dear colleagues,
Please see call for papers below.
All the best
Sara Asu Schroer
Research Fellow at ERC Arctic Domus
Department of Anthropology
University of Aberdeen
Date/Venue: 11th Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies, 7 - 11 September 2015, Vienna
Deadline for paper proposals: 20th of February 2015
Organisers: David Anderson (University of Aberdeen); Sara Asu Schroer (University of Aberdeen)
Title: Human-bird relationships in the study of hunters and gatherers
Abstract: Connecting the spheres of earth and sky, birds and their ability to fly and transcend the human boundedness to the ground, have long fascinated humans and inspired their imagination. Yet the significance of birds in human lives remains an understudied field in anthropological inquiry of human-animal relationships. This panel seeks to address this lacuna. We invite contributors to discuss the manifold ways in which the lives of birds and humans interweave. Birds have always played a significant role in practices of shamanism, as symbols in religious rites and rituals and appear as mythical figures in oral histories. They further may be integrated into human lives as companions, often taking on a liminal position that complicates straight forward boundary drawing between the domestic and the wild. Furthermore, the relationships that develop through the knowledge of birds as well as the engagement with them may reveal interesting aspects on how humans relate to the environment and places in which they conduct their lives. Contributions to this panel may engage with either of these aspects but should not be limited to them.
The format of this panel will be a roundtable. This will allow room for discussion of central questions of the papers presented in dialogue with the other participants.
To suggest a paper visit: http://chags.univie.ac.at/call-for-papers/
The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.
Tha Oilthigh Obar Dheathain na charthannas cl?raichte ann an Alba, ?ir. SC013683.
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