“Na čemu si ti?” Primjer viševrsne etnografije/antropologije životinja i veganskoga ekofeminizma/feminističko-vegetarijanske teorije
In the first part of the paper, my starting point is Wilson’s idea of the unification of knowledge; in other parts, I seek to present, in this vein, the multi-/inter-/transdisciplinary approach of the multispecies ethnography that has also been assigned its own mailing list EASA – Multispecies. net at this year’s SIEF (2017). Naturally, certain scientists oppose Wilson’s idea, thus acknowledging their own fear of natural sciences infiltrating a certain humanist or social field, as acknowledged by anthropologist Marshall Sahlins when criticising Wilson’s Sociobiology (1975). I continue by citing – as the multi-/inter-/transdisciplinary approaches that are my starting point – the example of multispecies ethnography/anthropology of animals and vegan ecofeminism/feminist-vegetarian theory. These approaches differ from certain currently dominant multi-/inter-/transdisciplinary studies, given that both anthropology of animals and feminist-vegetarian theory disintegrate the dichotomy of nature vs. culture, humans vs. non-humans. Specifi cally, it is exactly this species/animal turn in anthropology that has been predicted as early as 1962 by Lévi-Strauss in his book Totemism Today; in 1989, socio-cultural anthropologist Barbara Noske proceeded to radicalise this turn “beyond the boundaries of anthropology”. Also, the International Society for Anthrozoology (ISAZ) was founded in 1991, i.e. only two years after Barbara Noske’s book, where Noske made a plea to defi ne the anthropology of animals.
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