‘Make Me Believe!’: Ghost-hunting technology and the postmodern fantastic

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Juliet Lauro ◽  
Catherine Paul
Keyword(s):  
Hunting Technology

Roadkill: Between Humans, Nonhuman Animals, and Technologies

2004 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Michael
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Cultural Artifact ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Abstract Level ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Hunting Technology

AbstractThis paper has two broad objectives. First, the paper aims to treat roadkill as a topic of serious social scientific inquiry by addressing it as a cultural artifact through which various identities are played out. Thus, the paper shows how the idea of roadkill-as-food mediates contradictions and ironies in American identities concerned with hunting, technology, and relationships to nature. At a second, more abstract, level, the paper deploys the example of roadkill to suggest a par ticular approach to theorizing broader relationships between humans, nonhuman animals, and technology. This paper draws on recent developments in science and technology studies, in particular, the work of Latour (1993) and Serres (1982,1985), to derive a number of prepositional metaphors. The paper puts these forward tentatively as useful tools for exploring and unpicking some of the complex connections and heterogeneous relationalities between humans, animals, and the technology from which roadkill emerges.

Evidence for Early Hafted Hunting Technology

Science ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 338 (6109) ◽  
pp. 942-946 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Wilkins ◽  
B. J. Schoville ◽  
K. S. Brown ◽  
M. Chazan
Keyword(s):  
Hunting Technology

Collapse of Crucial Resources and Culture Change: A Model for the Woodland to Oneota Transformation in the Upper Midwest

2006 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
James L. Theler ◽  
Robert F. Boszhardt
Keyword(s):  
Community Organization ◽  
Late Woodland ◽  
Upper Midwest ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
American Bottom ◽  
Driftless Area ◽  
Middle Mississippian ◽  
Effigy Mound ◽  
Northward Expansion ◽  
Hunting Technology

The Driftless Area of the Upper Midwestern United States offers a case study for the transition from hunter-gatherer (Late Woodland Effigy Mound) to agricultural (Oneota) societies between ca. A.D. 950 and 1150, a period that coincided with northward expansion of Middle Mississippian cultures from the American Bottom. Previous studies have not adequately explained the regional disappearance of Effigy Mound cultures, the appearance of Oneota cultures, or the cultural changes that occurred during this period. Our analysis considers ecological (deer and firewood) and cultural (population packing, community organization, hunting technology, and warfare) factors to develop a testable model applicable to broader regions. We propose that increasing Late Woodland populations reached the region's “packing threshold,” disrupting a flexible seasonal round based on residential mobility and triggering shortages of two essential resources, white-tailed deer and firewood, which in turn led Late Woodland groups to abandon vast portions of the Driftless Area. The intrusion of Middle Mississippian peoples from the south created additional disruption and conflict. Remnant Woodland and Mississippian peoples amalgamated briefly in the region's first villages, which were palisaded. After A.D. 1150, Oneota cultures emerged, reoccupying specific localities in clustered settlements.

Evolution of Hunting Technology

2021 ◽  
pp. 164-174
Author(s):  
Dipali Danda ◽  
Sumit Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Hunting Technology

The form and function of Ovambo arrows: Exploring agro-pastoralist hunting technology

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 105-113
Author(s):  
Chrislyn Allan ◽  
Justin Bradfield ◽  
Marlize Lombard
Keyword(s):  
Form And Function ◽  
And Function ◽  
Hunting Technology

scholarly journals Sociocultural Importance of Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) in Maya Subsistence Hunting: Revelations From Their Participation in the Traditional Group Hunting (Batida) in Yucatan

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 194008291983082
Author(s):  
Elías Plata ◽  
Salvador Montiel ◽  
Julia Fraga ◽  
Carlos Evia
Keyword(s):  
Canis Lupus Familiaris ◽  
Traditional Group ◽  
Subsistence Hunting ◽  
Peasant Communities ◽  
Hunting Dogs ◽  
Social Prestige ◽  
Utilitarian Value ◽  
Wild Meat ◽  
Group Hunting ◽  
Hunting Technology

Historically, dogs have played a prominent role in subsistence hunting. In the contemporary Mayab, the group hunting or batidaprovides multiple sociocultural benefits for those who practice it, in addition to wild meat. Here, we analyze the social perception of dogs used in batidaas part of the cosmovision of Maya peasant-hunters in a rural community of Campeche, Mexico. We conducted semistructured interviews with 36 local batidahunters who owned a total of 51 dogs. Batidadogs provide different benefits (meat and social prestige for Maya peasant-hunters) depending on their roles as maestros(leader dogs) or secretarios(support dogs) and the type of prey captured. Hunting dogs go beyond their utilitarian value as a hunting technology and play an important role in the sociocultural dynamic of the batida, one of the main wildlife practices mediating the relationships between peasant communities and their natural surroundings in the Yucatan Peninsula.

Late Ice Age Hunting Technology

1994 ◽  
Vol 271 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Knecht
Keyword(s):  
Ice Age ◽  
Hunting Technology
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