Animals as Producers, Consumers and Consumed: The Complexities of Trans-Species Sustenance in a Multi-Faith Community
Animals as Producers, Consumers and Consumed: The Complexities of Trans-Species Sustenance in a Multi-Faith Community
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动物作为生产者、消费者和消费者：多信仰社区中跨物种生存的复杂性
DOI：
10.1080/00141844.2015.1107611
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发表时间：
2017
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影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
S. Hurn
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作者：
S. Hurn
在宗教背景下，人类学与非人类动物的接触往往集中在动物身上，要么是作为祭品，其身体被献祭者和神所消耗，要么是作为象征实体，其生理或行为特征被人类想象所消耗。更一般地说，动物，特别是那些被归类为牲畜的动物，构成了“动物产品”--它们的肉、奶、蛋和皮很容易被人类和那些有幸成为我们亲密伙伴的非人类所食用。在一个多物种、多信仰的静修所进行的纵向定性研究中，并与最近的行为学研究对话，挑战对非人类主体性的主流理解，我们将建议动物，特别是那些传统上被归类为“牲畜”的动物，可以获得生产者、消费者和消费者的地位，挑战生产和消费的规范期望和实践。
ABSTRACT Anthropological engagements with nonhuman animals in religious contexts have tended to focus on animals either as sacrificial offerings, whose physical bodies are consumed by suppliants and the divine, or as symbolic entities whose physiological or behavioural characteristics are consumed by human imaginations. More generally, animals, especially those classified as livestock, constitute ‘animal products’ – their flesh, milk, eggs and skins readily consumed by both humans and those nonhumans privileged enough to be our close companions. Drawing on longitudinal qualitative research conducted at a multi-species, multi-faith ashram, and in dialogue with recent ethological research which challenges dominant understandings of nonhuman subjectivities, it will be suggested that animals, especially those traditionally classified as ‘livestock’ can acquire the status of producers, consumers and consumed in ways which challenge normative expectations and practices of production and consumption.