Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Heidelberg, 18. Juli 2017 Flesh, Blood and Bones: the forgetting of the carnal in the anthropology of hunting Thorsten Gieser, Universität Koblenz-Landau Anthropological accounts of hunting tend to focus on the hunters‘ worldview at the expense of the hunters‘ lifeworld, i.e. the realm of lived experience. In doing so, anthropologists have…
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Münster 2017 Vortrag A Hunter’s Sense of Landscape
Gieser, Thorsten. 2017. A Hunter’s Sense of Landscape: A Phenomenological Approach to Sensory Anthropology and Anthropological Filming. Vortrag, Institut für Ethnologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Januar INTRODUCTION Einen richtigen Jäger, den muß man ‚erleben‘, mit dem muß man selbst gejagt, selbst alles gefühlt und empfunden haben, was so ein Jägerleben mit sich bringt an Mühen und…
The Beauty of Hunting Revisited
After the short film The Beauty of Hunting, The Beauty of Hunting Revisited returns to the original scene of the lone female hunter immersed in the forest landscape and weatherworld to situate her within the unfolding of events and activities in which she was embedded that day. Whereas the short film aimed at an understanding…
Engaging with a hunter’s world of materials
In this essay, I am interested especially in those urban middle-class hunters for whom enjoying nature is central to their hunting practice. In Germany – as in most countries – this urban middle-class is often characterized as being alienated from ‘nature’ but longing to re-connect with nature, with more ‘raw’ and ‘wilder’ practices that might…