BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.6.1//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:news5312@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260909T165239 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261104T161500 SUMMARY:Janne Flora: "Taste as Infrastructure: hunting\, landscape and huma n-animal relations in Greenland" DESCRIPTION:The idea that Inuit hunt primarily for calories and physical su rvival remains one of the most enduring narratives about the Arctic. Anoth er familiar narrative centres on souls and the belief that animals never t ruly 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 Anthropocene land- and seascapes.\\r\\nDrawing on long-term ethnographic research condu cted across different regions of Greenland\, this presentation explores ho w taste (the taste of animals\, of places\, and of seasons) can be underst ood as a form of infrastructure through which hunters and their families n avigate\, experience\, and make sense of both landscapes and the animals t hey hunt. Attending to taste in this way opens up new perspectives on how human–animal relations are shaped and continually reconfigured amid chan ging environmental and political conditions\, including thinning sea ice\, declining wildlife stocks\, pollution\, and increasingly regulated huntin g.\\r\\nJanne Flora is associate professor at the department of anthropolo gy at Aarhus University and centre leader at AUNA: Centre for North Atlant ic and Arctic Research. She has carried out research in Greenland for more than two decades\, in recent years on questions relating to human-aninmal relations in hunting communities. X-ALT-DESC:

The idea that Inuit hunt primarily for calories and physical survival remains one of the most enduring narratives about the Arctic. Ano ther familiar narrative centres on souls and the belief that animals never truly die\, but instead reincarnate when treated properly by humans. Whil e neither of these understandings is entirely misplaced\, both tend to fra me Inuit hunting through rather utilitarian or essentialist lenses\, makin g it difficult to account for the complexities of contemporary Anthropocen e land- and seascapes.

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Drawing on long-term ethnographic research conducted across different regions of Greenland\, this presentat ion explores how taste (the taste of animals\, of places\, and of seasons) can be understood as a form of infrastructure through which hunters and t heir families navigate\, experience\, and make sense of both landscapes an d the animals they hunt. Attending to taste in this way opens up new persp ectives on how human–animal relations are shaped and continually reconfi gured amid changing environmental and political conditions\, including thi nning sea ice\, declining wildlife stocks\, pollution\, and increasingly r egulated hunting.

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Janne Flora is associate professor at the dep artment of anthropology at Aarhus University and centre leader at AUNA: Ce ntre for North Atlantic and Arctic Research. She has carried out research in Greenland for more than two decades\, in recent years on questions rela ting to human-aninmal relations in hunting communities.

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