Of all avian groups, birds of prey in particular have long been a prominent subject of fascination in many human societies. This book demonstrates that the art and materiality of human engagements with raptors has been significant through deep time and across the world, from earliest prehistory to Indigenous thinking in the present day. Drawing on a wide range of global case studies and a plurality of complementary perspectives, it explores the varied and fluid dynamics between humans and birds of prey as evidenced in this diverse art-historical and archaeological record.
From their depictions as powerful beings in visual art and their important roles in Indigenous mythologies, to the significance of their body parts as active agents in religious rituals, the intentional deposition of their faunal remains and the display of their preserved bodies in museums, there is no doubt that birds of prey have been figures of great import for the shaping of human society and culture. However, several of the chapters in this volume are particularly concerned with looking beyond the culturenature dichotomy and human-centred accounts to explore perspectival and other post-humanist thinking on humanraptor ontologies and epistemologies. The contributors recognize that humanraptor relationships are not driven exclusively by human intentionality, and that when these species meet they relate-to and become-with one another. This 'raptor-with-human'-focused approach allows for a productive re-framing of questions about humanraptor interstices, enables fresh thinking about established evidence and offers signposts for present and future intra-actions with birds of prey.
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Raptors have long captured the human imagination. This book deploys theoretically sophisticated analyses to explore a wide range of human-raptor interactions around the world and extending into the past, revealing the depth of these relations * Nerissa Russell, Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University, USA * [ This collection offers] a breath of disciplinary perspectives and fresh insights into the fascinating and little-known relationships of humans and raptors across a variety of historical, socio-political and cultural contexts. -- Sara Asu Schroer, University of Oslo, Norway * IBIS: International Journal of Avian Science *
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Explores the art and archaeology of humanraptor relations across a broad range of geographies and cultures from prehistory to the present day.
Table of Contents
Introduction (Robert J. Wallis, The Open University, UK)
Part 1 The Materiality of Human Engagements with Birds of Prey
1. Raptors as companions: comparative deep-time forays in multispecies
archaeology (Shumon T. Hussain, Aarhus University, Denmark)
2. Gods, Kings and Offerings: Raptors in Ancient Egypt (Salima Ikram,
American University in Cairo, Egypt)
3. Ghosthawk Worldings: Raptor Haruspicy During the North European Bronze Age
(Joakim Goldhahn, University of Western Australia, Australia)
Part 2 Visualising Human Relations with Raptors
4. Golden Eagles: Raptor Imagery Biographies in Kazakhstan During the Early
First Millennium BCE. (Kenneth Lymer, Independent Scholar, UK)
5. Visual Hybridity, Political Power and Cultural Contest: Kitan Liao
(916-1125 CE) and Jurchen Jin (1115-1234 CE) Textiles with Falconry-Related
Imagery (Leslie Wallace, Coastal Carolina University, USA)
6. The Falcon-Cloak Whistled: Bird Fibulae, Falconry and Powerful Women in
Seventh Century Scandinavia (Kristina Jennbert, Lund University, Sweden)
Part 3 Post-Humanist Ontologies of Human-Raptor Relations
7. Relating to Raptors: The upper part of a hawks head and beak in a
Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age Beaker Grave, Driffield, East Yorkshire
(Robert J. Wallis, The Open University, UK)
8. Raptors in Precolumbian North America: An Ontology of Art (Max Carocci,
The American University in London, UK)
9. Birds of Prey in Ancient Amazonia: Predation and Perspective in Ceramic
Iconography (Cristiana Barreto, Museu Paraense Emķlio Goeldi, Brazil, and
Marcony Alves, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
10. Now I Am a Bird, and Now I Am a Man: Post-humanism, Raptors and the
Rus (Neil Price, University of Uppsala, Sweden)
Part 4 Indigenous Knowledges of Birds of Prey
11. Birds of Prey, Our Mothers and Women of Power: The Spirit Bird of
Night Masquerade in Yoru`ba“ Art and Thought (Henry John Drewal, University
of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
12. Pouakai: Rock Drawings of Haasts Eagle or New Zealands Legendary Bird?
(Gerard ORegan and Emma Burns, Tuhura Otago Museum, New Zealand, and Te
Maire Tau, University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
13. Ancestors, Messengers and Good Country: Birds of Prey, Rock Art and
Indigenous Knowledge in the Kimberley, Northwest Australia (Ana Paula Motta
and Martin Porr, University of Western Australia, Australia)
Robert J. Wallis is Senior Lecturer and Staff Tutor in Art History at the Open University, UK.
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