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Tuesday, 2 August 2016

Zoofolkloristics: First insights towards the new discipline

Volume 52, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 7-30

  (Article)

[Zoofolkloristika: Prvi uvidi na putu prema novoj disciplini]

Institute of Ethnomusicology ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2, Ljubljana, Slovenia 

Abstract

The author notes that new, more complex researches of connections between animals, nature and connections to humans are needed in Slovenian and European folklore, literature and cultural studies, due to new ecological and ethical findings in the wider social and cultural environment and a changing order of the world, which has moved the focus from anthropocentrism into ecocentrism. The discussion builds upon various theoretical discourses, new concepts and multidisciplinary knowledge, to create the foundations, guidelines and directions for a new academic discipline of zoofolkloristics. Furthermore, new theoretical and analytical discourses should enable zoofolkloristics to provide an insight into changes in human attitudes to animals, in both folklore and within traditional and contemporary ritual practices, or their redefinition, and at the same time exert influence upon legal safety of nonhuman subjectivities. © 2015, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research. All rights reserved.

Author keywords

Animals in folklore and literature; Anthropocentrism; Critical animal studies; Ecocentrism; Zoofolklore; Zoofolkloristics
ISSN: 05472504Source Type: Journal Original language: English
DOI: 10.15176/vol52no101Document Type: Article
Publisher: Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research

  Kaučič, M.G.; Institute of Ethnomusicology ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2, Slovenia
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