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This volume provides fresh insight into northern human-animal
relations and illustrates the breadth and practical utility of
archaeological human-animal studies. It surveys recent
archaeological research in northern North America and Eurasia that
frames human-animal relations as not merely economically
exploitative but often socially complex and deeply meaningful, and
attuned to the intelligence and agency of nonhuman prey and
domesticates. The case studies sample a wide swath of the
circumpolar region, from Alaska, Nunavut and Greenland to northern
Fennoscandia and western Siberia, and span sites, finds and
scenarios ranging in age from the Mesolithic to the twenty-first
century. Many taxa on which northern lives hinged figure in these
analyses, including large marine mammals, polar bear, reindeer,
marine fish and birds, and are variously approached from
relational, multispecies, semiotic, osteobiographical and political
economic perspectives. Animals themselves are represented by
osteological remains, harvesting gear, and depictions of animal
bodies that include zoomorphic figurines, petroglyphs,
ornamentation, and intricate portrayals of human-animal harvesting
encounters. Far from settling the problem of how archaeologists
should approach northern human-animal relations, these chapters
reveal the irreducible complexity of northern worlds and highlight
the diversity of human and nonhuman animal lives. The book will be
of particular interest to northern archaeologists and
zooarchaeologists, and all those interested in the possibilities of
a multispecies approach to the archaeological record.
In Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas, Melissa R.
Baltus and Sarah E. Baires critically examine the current
understanding of relationality in the Americas, covering a diverse
range of topics from Indigenous cosmologies to the life-world of
the Inuit dog. The contributors to this wide-ranging edited
collection interrogate and discuss the multiple natures of
relational ontologies, touching on the ever-changing, fluid, and
varied ways that people, both alive and dead, relate and related to
their surrounding world. While the case studies presented in this
collection all stem from the New World, the Indigenous histories
and archaeological interpretations vary widely and the boundaries
of relational theory challenge current preconceptions about earlier
ways of life in the Indigenous Americas.
Contributors to this landmark volume demonstrate that ancestor
veneration was about much more than claiming property rights-the
spirits of the dead were central to domestic disputes, displays of
wealth, and power and status relationships. Case studies from
China, Africa, Europe, and Mesoamerica use the evidence of art,
architecture, ritual, and burial practices to explore the complex
roles of ancestors in the past. Including a comprehensive overview
of nearly two hundred years of anthropological research, The
Archaeology of Ancestors reveals how and why societies remember and
revere the dead. Through analyses of human remains, ritual
deposits, and historical documents, contributors explain how
ancestors were woven into the social fabric of the living.
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Imagining the Supernatural North (Paperback)
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, Danielle Marie Cudmore, Stefan Donecker; Contributions by Angela Byrne, Silvije Habulinec, …
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"Turning to face north, face the north, we enter our own
unconscious. Always, in retrospect, the journey north has the
quality of dream." Margaret Atwood, "True North" In this
interdisciplinary collection, sixteen scholars from twelve
countries explore the notion of the North as a realm of the
supernatural. This region has long been associated with sorcerous
inhabitants, mythical tribes, metaphysical forces of good and evil,
and a range of supernatural qualities. It was both the sacred abode
of the gods and a feared source of menacing invaders and
otherworldly beings. Whether from the perspective of traditional
Jewish lore or of contemporary black metal music, few motifs in
European cultural history show such longevity and broad appeal.
Contributors: Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, Angela Byrne, Danielle
Marie Cudmore, Stefan Donecker, Brenda S. Gardenour Walter, Silvije
Habulinec, Erica Hill, Jay Johnston, Maria Kasyanova, Jan
Leichsenring, Shane McCorristine, Jennifer E. Michaels, Ya'acov
Sarig, Rudolf Simek, Athanasios Votsis, Brian Walter
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