Twelth International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS XII), Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, 23.-27. Juli 2018 WAYS OF THE HUNTING DOG: THE GERMAN PRESSURE HUNT FROM ONE ANIMAL’S PERSPECTIVE Thorsten Gieser, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany In this paper I explore hunting in Germany as a multi-species engagement from a (anthropologically) de-centralised perspective by…
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Vortragsankündigung 2017 Münster The Beauties of Hunting
Tuesday, December 19th 2017 4-6 p.m. Institute of Ethnology, WWU Münster Studtstraße 21, Raum STU 105 (2.10) The Beauties of Hunting: a ‚tandem film‘ format for an audiovisual/sensory ethnography For Clifford Geertz, „a good interpretation of anything – a poem, a person, a history, a ritual, an institution, a society – takes us into the…
Vortrag Heidelberg 2017 Flesh, Blood and Bones
Introduction Hunting is – and has been- one of the most enduring themes in anthropology. Anthropologists have been especially attracted to hunters‘ animist ontologies which attributes ‚personhood‘ to humans and non-humans alike. What is the world like when you’re killing and eating souls?, as one eskimo hunter has put it to Rasmussen. For more than…
Köln 2017 Vortrag Killing a wounded sow
KILLING A WOUNDED SOW: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH TO A PROBLEMATIC HUNTING SITUATION Thorsten Gieser, University of Koblenz-Landau Gleichgültig auf welches Wild ein Jäger jagt – bevor er ein Stück beschießt, muß er die Fertigkeit besitzen, das kranke Stück auf schnellstem und weidgerechtem Wege töten zu können. Wer ein Stück krank schießt und steht hilflos…
Vortragsankündigung 2017 Heidelberg Flesh, Blood and Bones
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…
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…
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…
Vortragsankündigung 2017 Köln: Killing a wounded sow
International workshop „The Situationality of Human-Animal Relations: Perspectives from Anthropology and Philosophy“ Organizers: Prof. Dr. Thiemo Breyer and Prof. Dr. Thomas Widlok Place: a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities & Competence Area IV “Cultures and Societies in Transition”, University of Cologne Date: 9./10. February 2017 Killing a wounded sow: A phenomenological anthropology of a hunting situation…
Vortragsankündigung 2017 Münster: A Hunter’s Sense of Landscape
11. Januar 2017, 16.00 Uhr, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Ethnologie, Studtstr. 21, Raum STU 105 A Hunter’s Sense of Landscape: A Phenomenological Approach to Sensory Anthropology and Anthropological Filming Thorsten Gieser, University of Koblenz-Landau Abstract: Drawing on my ongoing fieldwork with German hunters since 2014, I explore an often overlooked aspect of hunting, the…
EASA 2016 Vortrag Hunting wild animals in Germany
Hunting wild animals in Germany has become a contested field as wildlife management regimes meet ‚traditional‘ hunting practices of ’stewardship‘. At the centre of this conflict we find divergent human-animal relations and divergent conceptions of the ‚wild‘.