Krish Seetah

Humans, Animals, and the Craft of Slaughter in Archaeo-Historic Societies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book conceptualizes butchery as an expression of technological knowledge and culture embedded in action, defining the human-animal relationship.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 264mm x 191mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9781108428804
• ISBN-10: 1108428800
• Artikelnr.: 52959016

Autorenporträt

Krish Seetah is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. He brings vocational experience as a professional butcher to his research on environmental archaeology, especially human-animal interactions, and the ecological consequences of colonialism.  He is the author of Bones for Tools - Tools for Bones: The Interplay Between Objects and Objectives (2012) and Connecting Continents: Archaeology and History in the Indian Ocean (forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Butchery as Craft and Social Praxis: 1. Animal bodies, human technology
2. Conceptualising 'butchery'
3. Thinking practically
4. Craft, practice, and social boundaries
5. Intellectualizing practice: bridging analogy and technology
6. The materiality of butchery
Part II. The Butchers' Practice in Archaeo-Historic Societies: 7. Studying cut marks in historic archaeological contexts
8. Problematising butchery studies
9. Harnessing the power of the cut mark record
10. Humans, animals, and the butchers' craft in Roman and medieval Britain
11. Connecting complex butchering to complexity in society
12. Beyond butchery.