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- Convenors:
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Csaba Mészáros
(Hungarian Research Network, Research Centre for the Humanities)
Eva Mihalovics (Durham University)
Miha Kozorog (ZRC SAZU)
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- Format:
- Panel
Short Abstract:
Ungulates are the most dominant family of vertebrates in Earth's ecosystem, measured by biomass. Due to their impact on Earth's ecosystem human-ungulate knowledge coproduction and distribution and the stories of shared and entangled human-ungulate lifeworlds are important fields to explore.
Long Abstract:
Cattle are the most dominant mammal species and ungulates (like cattle, sheep, pigs, wild game, etc.) are the most dominant family of vertebrates in Earth's ecosystem, measured by biomass. They are usually represented as an important part of local economies, serving as valuable “assets” for farmers, nomads, hunters, and agricultural entrepreneurs in anthropological literature. Research focusing on community resilience and adaptation in the Anthropocene era should aim to understand how local communities respond to rapid environmental and climatic changes by taking non-human animals and their knowledes, and skills into account.
Anthropocentric studies focus predominantly on human knowledge, leaving the knowledge, skills and behaviour of bovine and ungulate animals underrepresented in anthropological writing. It's important to recognize that the community of knowers and actors in a given environment includes more than just humans and that ungulate animals have a dominant impact on local ecologies. Despite this robust impact, anthropologists have limited knowledge about how the agency, knowledge, skills of these animals contribute to local decision-making. Studying interspecies knowledge co-production and distribution, shared spaces and lifeworlds of humans and ungulates are worth exploring.
This panel aims to explore the external and internal conditions of human- ungulate (cattle-sheep-pig-deer etc.) coexistence. It seeks to understand how the non-simultaneity (Ungleichzeitigkeit) of conflicting moralities and ontologies of humans and bovines/ungulates create unique frameworks and life paths in their coexistence. It also aims to address how it is possible to create histories and ethnographies of bovine/ungulate lifeways that do not solely revolve around human perspectives.