Encountering ancient environments : the impact of nonhuman animals on populations of Hittite Anatolia
Resumen: With the aim of contributing to the understanding of how nonhuman animals (henceforth animals) have shaped human lives through time, this article explores animals’ impact on ancient populations of Anatolia as reflected in the Hittite tablet collections of Hattusa (Boğazköy/ Boğazkale)...
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I33-R139-123456789-164342023-05-31T15:25:24Z Encountering ancient environments : the impact of nonhuman animals on populations of Hittite Anatolia Della Casa, Romina ANIMALES HISTORIA ANTIGUA HITITAS POBLACIONES ANTIGUAS HUMANIDADES Resumen: With the aim of contributing to the understanding of how nonhuman animals (henceforth animals) have shaped human lives through time, this article explores animals’ impact on ancient populations of Anatolia as reflected in the Hittite tablet collections of Hattusa (Boğazköy/ Boğazkale) and Tapikka (Maşat-Höyük; fig. 1). In other words, its goal is to survey various textual genres from the Hittite milieu in search of instances that reveal how the presence and behavior of animals encouraged human adaptations. Even though human-animal coexistence can be traced back to the origins of humanity, approaches to their interactions have changed over time and differ amply across disciplines. Indeed, for most of its history, fields within the humanities have looked at animals as objects from which to understand humans, or as sources for a society to think about or act on (DeMello 2012: 23). Work carried out mainly by anthropologists over the past few decades (e.g., Ingold 1994; 2002: 172–88; Viveiros de Castro 1998; Descola 2013; Kohn 2015; van Dooren, Kirksey, and Münster 2016) has overhauled this tendency, bringing animals to the foreground as “active social agents in their own right, as opposed to ‘things’ in relation to human subjects” (Hurn 2012: 4). Central to proposals within this animal turn is a shift in perspective, making explicit that human-animal studies need to present themselves as a two-way road, with a more symmetrical attitude toward all components being studied; in other words, where humans, animals, as well as a multitude of animate and inanimate beings (such as trees, mountains, rivers, and rocks) should be examined as mutually affected by their existences. Predominantly, studies within this turn pertain to human-animal mutual responses, influences, adaptations and, broadly speaking, ways of behaving and being with (and within) a given environment. 2023-05-30T23:02:39Z 2023-05-30T23:02:39Z 2022 Artículo Della Casa, R. Encountering ancient environments : the impact of nonhuman animals on populations of hittite Anatolia [en línea]. Near Eastern Archaeology. 2022, 85(49). Disponible en: https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/16434 1094-2076 (impreso) 2325-5404 (online) https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/16434 eng Acceso restringido http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf American Society of Overseas Research Near Eastern Archaeology. 2022, 85(49) |
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Resumen: With the aim of contributing to the understanding
of how nonhuman animals (henceforth animals)
have shaped human lives through time, this article
explores animals’ impact on ancient populations of Anatolia as
reflected in the Hittite tablet collections of Hattusa (Boğazköy/
Boğazkale) and Tapikka (Maşat-Höyük; fig. 1). In other words,
its goal is to survey various textual genres from the Hittite milieu
in search of instances that reveal how the presence and behavior
of animals encouraged human adaptations.
Even though human-animal coexistence can be traced back
to the origins of humanity, approaches to their interactions have
changed over time and differ amply across disciplines. Indeed,
for most of its history, fields within the humanities have looked
at animals as objects from which to understand humans, or as
sources for a society to think about or act on (DeMello 2012:
23). Work carried out mainly by anthropologists over the past
few decades (e.g., Ingold 1994; 2002: 172–88; Viveiros de Castro
1998; Descola 2013; Kohn 2015; van Dooren, Kirksey, and Münster
2016) has overhauled this tendency, bringing animals to the
foreground as “active social agents in their own right, as opposed
to ‘things’ in relation to human subjects” (Hurn 2012: 4).
Central to proposals within this animal turn is a shift in perspective,
making explicit that human-animal studies need to
present themselves as a two-way road, with a more symmetrical
attitude toward all components being studied; in other words,
where humans, animals, as well as a multitude of animate and
inanimate beings (such as trees, mountains, rivers, and rocks)
should be examined as mutually affected by their existences. Predominantly,
studies within this turn pertain to human-animal
mutual responses, influences, adaptations and, broadly speaking,
ways of behaving and being with (and within) a given environment. |
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