Concepts of the body and personhood in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges: interpreting animal remains from human burials

In recent years, humanities have brought forward the idea of non-human agency; either in the form of meanings bestowed upon objects, animals and natural phenomena, or through deconstruction of ontological differences between ‘people’ and ‘things’. In case of the former, it has been argued that non-h...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:74ec263a8eff4e109dfa66c9cf5d50292021-12-02T06:20:18ZConcepts of the body and personhood in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges: interpreting animal remains from human burials10.21301/eap.v10i3.60353-15892334-8801https://doaj.org/article/74ec263a8eff4e109dfa66c9cf5d50292016-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://eap-iea.org/novi-ojs/index.php/eap/article/view/266https://doaj.org/toc/0353-1589https://doaj.org/toc/2334-8801In recent years, humanities have brought forward the idea of non-human agency; either in the form of meanings bestowed upon objects, animals and natural phenomena, or through deconstruction of ontological differences between ‘people’ and ‘things’. In case of the former, it has been argued that non-human agents have the power to act as ‘participants’ in social action (e.g. the agentive power of material properties of things, or of animal behaviour). In this paper, I discuss the practice of placing animal body parts alongside human bodies in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges, by using the concept of perspectivism as a theoretical framework. The choice of species and their body parts varied, but was by no means accidental. Rather, it reflected certain culturally specific taxonomies, which were based on animal properties: how they look, move, feel or what they do. Common examples include red deer antlers, which have the power to ‘regenerate’ each year, or dog mandibles (physical remains of ‘mouths’) which have the power to ‘communicate’ (i.e. bark). The aim of the paper is to explore how various aspects of animal corporeality, associated with certain ways of seeing and experiencing the world, could be ‘borrowed’ by humans utilizing animal body parts.Ivana ŽivaljevićUniversity of Belgradearticleanimal agencypersonhoodembodimentperspectivismMesolithic- NeolithicDanube GorgesAnthropologyGN1-890ENFRSREtnoantropološki Problemi, Vol 10, Iss 3 (2016)
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language EN
FR
SR
topic animal agency
personhood
embodiment
perspectivism
Mesolithic- Neolithic
Danube Gorges
Anthropology
GN1-890
spellingShingle animal agency
personhood
embodiment
perspectivism
Mesolithic- Neolithic
Danube Gorges
Anthropology
GN1-890
Ivana Živaljević
Concepts of the body and personhood in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges: interpreting animal remains from human burials
description In recent years, humanities have brought forward the idea of non-human agency; either in the form of meanings bestowed upon objects, animals and natural phenomena, or through deconstruction of ontological differences between ‘people’ and ‘things’. In case of the former, it has been argued that non-human agents have the power to act as ‘participants’ in social action (e.g. the agentive power of material properties of things, or of animal behaviour). In this paper, I discuss the practice of placing animal body parts alongside human bodies in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges, by using the concept of perspectivism as a theoretical framework. The choice of species and their body parts varied, but was by no means accidental. Rather, it reflected certain culturally specific taxonomies, which were based on animal properties: how they look, move, feel or what they do. Common examples include red deer antlers, which have the power to ‘regenerate’ each year, or dog mandibles (physical remains of ‘mouths’) which have the power to ‘communicate’ (i.e. bark). The aim of the paper is to explore how various aspects of animal corporeality, associated with certain ways of seeing and experiencing the world, could be ‘borrowed’ by humans utilizing animal body parts.
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author Ivana Živaljević
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title Concepts of the body and personhood in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges: interpreting animal remains from human burials
title_short Concepts of the body and personhood in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges: interpreting animal remains from human burials
title_full Concepts of the body and personhood in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges: interpreting animal remains from human burials
title_fullStr Concepts of the body and personhood in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges: interpreting animal remains from human burials
title_full_unstemmed Concepts of the body and personhood in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges: interpreting animal remains from human burials
title_sort concepts of the body and personhood in the mesolithic-neolithic danube gorges: interpreting animal remains from human burials
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