An embarrassment of riches: the ontological aspect of meat and fat harvesting among subarctic hunters

DSpace Repository


Dateien:

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10900/114227
http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-55602
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-dspace-1142274
http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-dspace-1142278
http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-dspace-1142273
Dokumentart: BookPart
Date: 2021-04-14
Source: Tuebingen Paleoanthropology Book Series – Contributions in Paleoanthropology Band 1: Human-elephant interactions: from past to present
Language: English
Faculty: Tuebingen Paleoanthropology Book Series – Contributions in Paleoanthropology Band 1: Human-elephant interactions: from past to present
Other Keywords: Hunter-gatherers
animism
ontology
subarctic
North America
fat
stone
color
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.de
Show full item record

Inhaltszusammenfassung:

If we hypothesize that Pleistocene hunters un- derstood animals to be self-aware other-than-hu- man persons, as contemporary hunter-gatherers tend to do, what evidence of this kind of rela- tionship might appear the material record? While the “turn to ontology” within anthropology has mainly used, as evidence, a group’s consciously held ideas, part of a people’s assumptions about reality are unconscious, and revealed only in be- havior. The chapter examines the potential of the ethnographic analogy, using the example of some contemporary North American subarctic hunters. In particular, I look at how their ontological as- sumptions are reflected in their material culture, such as in their treatment of animal bones, their pictographs and other decorations, their venera- tion of particular rocks, and the significance they attach to certain colors.

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

cc_by-nc-nd Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as cc_by-nc-nd