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…
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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‘.
Me, My Prey, and I: Embodiment and Empathy in the Dialogical Self of a Siberian Hunter
In this article I examine the non-verbal dialogues between Siberian hunters and their prey in order to explore how empathetic relationships affect the integrity of the dialogical self. Based on the ethnographic accounts of the anthropologist Rane Willerslev (2002, 2004a, 2004b, 2007) I show how the hunter maintains his human identity while he imitates the…
Vortragsankündigung EASA 2016 (Mailand) Hunting wild animals in Germany: Conflicts between wildlife management and ‚traditional‘ practices of Hege and Waidgerechtigkeit
14th EASA Biennial Conference Anthropological legacies and human futures Department of Human Science for Education ‚Riccardo Massa‘ and Department of Sociology and Social Research at University of Milano-Bicocca 20-23 July, 2016 Panel: The return of the wild: fears – hopes – strategies. ethnographic encounters in wildlife management in Europe The panel presents research into the…