Both subject and object
Herding, Inalienability and Sentient Property in Prehistory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3919759 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Orton (0000-0003-4069-8004, Arthur B. McDonald-Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 188-200 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00438241003672773 |
| OpenAlex | W2157797784 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 36 |
This paper advocates a social approach to domestic animals in prehistory, one which situates herding practices in their (human) social context while also recognizing the status of animals of social beings in their own right. Domestic animals, it is argued, represent sentient property in the sense that, despite being incorporated as 'objects' into property relations between humans they remain subjects whose social world overlaps with that of humans. This tension between the status of domestic animals as subject and as object is played out in highly context-specific ways, being linked both to human social organization and to material/geographical aspects of herding practices. These ideas are used to develop a model for the role of cattle in a process of social change that took place during the later Neolithic Vinča period in the central Balkans. Keywords: Human-animal relationsVinčaNeolithic herdingdomesticationenchainment Acknowledgements This paper grew out of a PhD project funded by the University of Cambridge. Too many people contributed to that project to be listed here, but special mention goes to Svetlana Blažić, Dušan Borić, Marko Porčić, Duda Starović and my supervisor Preston Miracle. The paper itself benefited greatly from comments by Nerissa Russell and two anonymous reviewers, but all shortcomings remain my own
Archaeology · Clan · Context (archaeology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Herding · Linguistics · Object (grammar · Prehistory · Property (philosophy · Social organization · Sociology · Subject (documents · Ancient Near East History · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 28 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |