Recent approaches in the social sciences and humanities, including posthumanist perspectives, have drawn attention to the complexity of human-animal relations in the present as well as in the past. These new directions have found fertile ground in archaeology, where scholars have begun to reassess traditional approaches to zooarchaeology, explore the practices and relationships among humans and other animals, and consider conceptualizations of "monsters" and Mischwesen. In this course we will explore a range of theoretical approaches to human-animal-monster relations and use them to provide a basis for new examinations of these relationships in archaeological cases. Schließen

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