Original scientific paper
“DOGS DON’T SPEAK”. A CONSIDERATION OF THE FLOW OF KNOWLEDGE BETWEEN DOGS, ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND HUMANS
Sarah Czerny
orcid.org/0000-0003-3608-6144
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
Abstract
Within anthropological studies of the human-animal relation much has been written about the objectification of animals in “Euro-American” ontology and the need to reconsider this approach. Yet, although “Euro-American” ontologies on the human-animal relation have been the focus of critique, I suggest that the question of how we might reconsider this issue is still pertinent. In this article, I offer an ethnographic account of dog owner narratives on the dog-owner relation in Croatia. Through a consideration of these narratives in terms of the “flow of knowledge” (cf. Strathern 2004), I propose that knowledge between humans and animals is already flowing but it has just not been made visible as such.
Keywords
animal-human relation; knowledge production; flow
Hrčak ID:
84960
URI
Publication date:
31.7.2012.
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