"Å tenkje som en fauel" Med videokamera i utforskning av relasjonsbygging og meningsdannelse mellom menneske og fugl
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https://hdl.handle.net/10037/14791Date
2018-12-19Type
Journal articleTidsskriftartikkel
Peer reviewed
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Sundsvold, BenteAbstract
English abstract
The article seeks to explore the potential of using video footage in approaching inter-species communication and interaction. The empirical field is eider down harvesting practice on the coast of Helgeland, in particular the work of rebuilding an abandoned eider rookery and adjusting wild eider ducks (Somateria mollissima) to humans. In this work, the birds play a key role, and the fieldwork approach may be understood as etho-ethnography, where human and birds gets equal attention. By use of the video footage, the author tries to understand how meaning is established between the two species, which neither share language, perceptions nor elements. Ritual theory, performativity and Kohn’s «semiosis» are theoretical approaches in order to explore an anthropology beyond the human.