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Accepted Paper:

Rethinking Culture and Climate Change with Animals: Upper-Palaeolithic Perspectives  
Stephanie Koerner (Liverpool University )

Paper short abstract:

This paper explores contributions that examining the how and why of thinking with animals in Upper-Palaeolithic drawings can make to appreciating the importance and diversity of mimetic practices for how humans make sense of and adapt to deep and far reaching environmental contingency.

Paper long abstract:

"Until recently, the how and the why of thinking with animals were never posed as questions; far more attention has been paid to whether it is good or bad to do so. 'Anthropomorphism' is the word to describe the belief that animals are essentially like humans, and usually it is applied as a reproach" (Daston, Thinking with Animals, 2005). It is rather remarkable that Anthropology (so long defined as the study of the human) may be where one is most likely to find the longest standing interest and the widest range of materials bearing precisely on such questions.

This paper explores contributions that examining the how and why of thinking with animals in Upper-Palaeolithic drawings can make to jointly contextual and comparative studies of the importance and diversity of mimetic practices for how humans make sense of and adapt to deep and far reaching environmental contingencies. Emphasis falls upon the importance to such approaches of fresh anthropological approaches to the emergence, the how and the why of mimetic practices.

Panel P01
How can observing swallows help us adapt to climate change? Biodiversity perceptions as drivers of local understanding of environmental changes
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