BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.6.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1907@dgw.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260820T094928 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261104T161500 SUMMARY:Taste as Infrastructure: hunting\, landscape and human-animal relat ions in Greenland DESCRIPTION:AbstractThe idea that Inuit hunt primarily for calories and phy sical survival remains one of the most enduring narratives about the Arcti c. Another familiar narrative centres on souls and the belief that animals never truly die\, but instead reincarnate when treated properly by humans . While neither of these understandings is entirely misplaced\, both tend to frame Inuit hunting through rather utilitarian or essentialist lenses\, making it difficult to account for the complexities of contemporary Anthr opocene land- and seascapes.\\r\\nDrawing on long-term ethnographic resear ch conducted across different regions of Greenland\, this presentation exp lores how taste (the taste of animals\, of places\, and of seasons) can be understood as a form of infrastructure through which hunters and their fa milies navigate\, experience\, and make sense of both landscapes and the a nimals they hunt. Attending to taste in this way opens up new perspectives on how human–animal relations are shaped and continually reconfigured a mid changing environmental and political conditions\, including thinning s ea ice\, declining wildlife stocks\, pollution\, and increasingly regulate d hunting.\\r\\nBioJanne Flora is associate professor at the department of anthropology at Aarhus University and centre leader at AUNA: Centre for N orth Atlantic and Arctic Research. She has carried out research in Greenla nd for more than two decades\, in recent years on questions relating to hu man-aninmal relations in hunting communities.  X-ALT-DESC:

Abstract
The idea that Inuit hunt prima rily for calories and physical survival remains one of the most enduring n arratives about the Arctic. Another familiar narrative centres on souls an d the belief that animals never truly die\, but instead reincarnate when t reated properly by humans. While neither of these understandings is entire ly misplaced\, both tend to frame Inuit hunting through rather utilitarian or essentialist lenses\, making it difficult to account for the complexit ies of contemporary Anthropocene land- and seascapes.

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Dr awing on long-term ethnographic research conducted across different region s of Greenland\, this presentation explores how taste (the taste of animal s\, of places\, and of seasons) can be understood as a form of infrastruct ure through which hunters and their families navigate\, experience\, and m ake sense of both landscapes and the animals they hunt. Attending to taste in this way opens up new perspectives on how human–animal relations are shaped and continually reconfigured amid changing environmental and polit ical conditions\, including thinning sea ice\, declining wildlife stocks\, pollution\, and increasingly regulated hunting.

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Bio
Janne Flora is associate professor at the department of anthropology at Aarhus University and centre leader at AUNA: Centre for North Atlantic and Arctic Research. She has carried out research in Greenland for more than two decades\, in recent years on questions relating to human-aninmal relat ions in hunting communities. \;

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