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Accepted Paper:
Paper Short Abstract:
Whether through traditional folk narrative, music, riddles, games or dance various animals appear in their disparate guises and performances and often in hybrid or supernatural forms. This presentation will discuss the study of oral narrative and folk traditions in exploration of how they might express or enable the experience of animality. It will explore how ideas of animal characteristics and agency are performed and embodied in narrative and play. While bringing scholarship on posthumanism, animal mimicry, guising, pranking and protesting to bear recent case studies on the north coast of Iceland will be presented in conjunction with other ethnographies and archival material.
Paper Abstract:
The role of non-human animals is significant in folklore. Whether through traditional folk narrative, music, riddles, games or dance various animals appear in their disparate guises and performances and often in hybrid or supernatural forms. From a posthuman, or more-than-human, perspective these entanglements form a crucial part of our multispecies history. Many scholars, who challenge notions of a nature/culture binary, have also stressed the limitations of language in describing non-human experience. Attempts to name and describe other animals even been portrayed as tools in erasing the radical otherness inherent in these encounters. In response more unconventional and artistic methods have also been called on in the hope they might shake up the anthropocentric foundations of such endeavours. This presentation will discuss the study of oral narrative and folk traditions in exploration of how they might express or enable the experience of animality. It will explore how ideas of animal characteristics and agency are performed and embodied in narrative and play. While bringing scholarship on animal mimicry, guising, pranking and protesting to bear recent case studies on the north coast of Iceland will be presented in conjunction with other ethnographies and archival material.
Coastal (re)entanglements: unwritten remembrances and assemblages in verbal and visual arts and their performance
Session 2