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Methods for Multispecies Anthropology: Thinking with Salmon Otoliths and Scales
Ist Teil von
Social analysis, 2017-06, Vol.61 (2), p.81-99
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Berghahn Journals
Erscheinungsjahr
2017
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EBSCOhost Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This article proposes that multispecies anthropology and its curiosities about non-humans constitute a ‘minor anthropology’ that poses challenges not only to anthropological categories, but also to anthropological methods. Through attention to Pacific salmon, I probe why and how anthropologists might explore the ways non-humans know and enact worlds via collaborations with natural scientists. Working with biologists, I examine salmon scales and otoliths, or ear bones, whose crystallization patterns act as a kind of fish diary, recording a fish’s migrations and relations. I take up these methods with an anthropological eye, asking how one might use such practices to learn about multispecies encounters that classical ethnography often misses. Lastly, I demonstrate how anthropologists can engage natural science tools while remaining alert to the politics of knowing.