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Oliver is raised in day care and by after-school sitters because
both his parents work long hours to make sure they give him
everything he needs. A big house, nice clothes, expensive toys...
Everything he doesn't want. What he wants is for his parents to
spend time with him, for his mother to stay home, for his father to
watch him play ball, for them to be a family... When he is old
enough, he rebels in the only way he knows how. At home he becomes
resentful and obstinate. In school he is disobedient, uncooperative
and disruptive, making sure he flunks all his classes. At their
wits end, his parents send him away to a Camp for difficult
children and there he learns to deal with his problems in a very
special way.
The term "Anthropocene", the era of mankind, is increasingly being
used as a scientific designation for the current geological epoch.
This is because the human species now dominates ecosystems
worldwide, and affects nature in a way that rivals natural forces
in magnitude and scale. Thinking about Animals in the Age of the
Anthropocene presents a dozen chapters that address the role and
place of animals in this epoch characterized by anthropogenic
(human-made) environmental change. While some chapters describe our
impact on the living conditions of animals, others question
conventional ideas about human exceptionalism, and stress the
complex cognitive and other abilities of animals. The Anthropocene
idea forces us to rethink our relation to nature and to animals,
and to critically reflect on our own role and place in the world,
as a species. Nature is not what it was. Nor are the lives of
animals as they used to be before mankinds rise to global
ecological prominence. Can we eventually learn to live with
animals, rather than causing extinction and ecological mayhem?
The overarching aim of The Sheep People is to examine what happens
to the understanding of past societies when animals are perceived
as sentient beings, agents with the ability to impact human lives.
Not only are the agentive powers and potential of animals
recognised, but also how this shaped prehistoric societies.
Throughout, animals are considered as themselves, not as props,
tools or consumables for human societies. A thorough review of
recent research that supports the agential potential of animals
from Human-Animal Studies and the social sciences, as well as
ethology, biology and neurology is given, and discussed in light of
the archaeological case study. In the Early Bronze Age in northern
Europe, a transition from building two-aisled to three-aisled
longhouses as the primary farm dwelling took place. In Rogaland,
southwestern Norway, this architectural change happened as the
result of intensified human-sheep relationships, born from greater
engagement and proximity needed to utilise wool. Evidence from
landscape changes, settlements, mortuary practices and rock art
give an in-depth understanding of the life-world of Bronze Age
human and non-human agents and the nature of the choices they made.
A rock art panel portraying sheep, man and dog demonstrates the
entangled choreography of sheep herding.
The term "Anthropocene", the era of mankind, is increasingly being
used as a scientific designation for the current geological epoch.
This is because the human species now dominates ecosystems
worldwide, and affects nature in a way that rivals natural forces
in magnitude and scale. Thinking about Animals in the Age of the
Anthropocene presents a dozen chapters that address the role and
place of animals in this epoch characterized by anthropogenic
(human-made) environmental change. While some chapters describe our
impact on the living conditions of animals, others question
conventional ideas about human exceptionalism, and stress the
complex cognitive and other abilities of animals. The Anthropocene
idea forces us to rethink our relation to nature and to animals,
and to critically reflect on our own role and place in the world,
as a species. Nature is not what it was. Nor are the lives of
animals as they used to be before mankinds rise to global
ecological prominence. Can we eventually learn to live with
animals, rather than causing extinction and ecological mayhem?
Oma Boyd thrust wide open a window to the past in the lives of her
mountain people. She is carried along an unchartered course through
the memories of an old mountain woman with dementia.
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