Transdisciplinary Approaches to Past Human-Animal Relations
A special issue of Heritage (ISSN 2571-9408).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 November 2021) | Viewed by 333
Special Issue Editor
Interests: geoarchaeology; ethnoarchaeology; experimental archaeology; past human-animal relations; Viking Age archaeology; archaeology of Northern Europe and the North Atlantic region
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The entangled lives of humans and non-human animals have long and complex histories. We have lived in multi-species societies for at least 15,000 years, and our relationships with animals remain one of the fundamental aspects of modern culture. Our understanding of the history and cultural impacts of human-animal relations is grounded in a number of disciplines, including archaeology, bioarchaeological sciences, anthropology, philosophy, history, historical sociology, psychology, literature, and art history. However, these disciplines do not have an equal voice in knowledge production or syntheses, or in representations of animals and interspecies encounters in museums, heritage sites, academic publications, educational materials, or popular media. There may be a number of reasons for this, but one factor is the challenge of working across disciplines, both for researchers and for those in the education and heritage sectors working to integrate and translate research for a wider audience.
This Special Issue focusses on transdisciplinary research efforts to understand and/or represent different aspects of past human-animal relations, in order to place a spotlight on the methods, challenges, and benefits of higher level syntheses integrating two or more disciplines. Both original research papers and reviews are welcome on any transdisciplinary approaches to understanding the tangible or intangible heritage of human-animal relations of any time period(s) up to the present day. This may include, for example, the understanding of particular practices, attitudes and beliefs, shared spaces, places and landscapes, or material culture that was/is used to mediate human-animal relations.
Dr. Karen Milek
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- interdisciplinary animal studies
- tangible and intangible heritage
- the ‘animal turn’
- bioarchaeology
- zooarchaeology
- ethnozooarchaeology
- geoarchaeology
- representations of animals and interspecies encounter
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