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Ritvo, Harriet

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“…Much of this work is influenced by developments in the interdisciplinary field of Human–Animal Studies (or anthrozoology), which combines research from the humanities, and social and natural sciences (see e.g. Ritvo 2004). It also questions common assumptions about categories and classification of the world, demonstrating how concepts such as ‘animal-human-thing’ or ‘wild-domestic’ are relatively modern, western, culturally constructed concepts that do not apply universally (e.g.…”

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Chariot Kraters and Horse–human Relations in Late Bronze Age Greece and Cyprus

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Morris

2021

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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This paper offers a new comprehensive catalogue and discussion of Late Helladic III chariot kraters, and explores what they reveal about horse–human relations in Greece and Cyprus in the Late Bronze Age. The nearly 400 known examples of chariot kraters were produced in mainland Greece and exported to Cyprus and the Levant. Although the vessels were surely adapted to local contexts, the motif of horses and chariot was part of the ‘international’ spirit of the Late Bronze Age and was meaningful throughout the eastern Mediterranean. Following a discussion of the chronological and geographical distribution of the kraters, alongside notes regarding changes in shape, we examine each of the elements of the characteristic horses-and-chariot motif in depth. This close analysis, supplemented by evidence from faunal remains, Linear B and other visual media, and combined with modern equine knowledge, allows us to understand some of the complexities of horse–human relations in ancient Greece and Cyprus. Through this, we see a co-becoming and mutual training of horse and human in the endeavour to become a successful chariot team; we can also recognise elements of ancient acknowledgement of equine agency and personhood. Horses and humans acted and reacted to each other, thereby living and learning together. The images on the chariot kraters reflect both ancient observation and knowledge of horses and caballine behaviour and artistic conventions and developments. Finally, horses were expensive animals to breed, keep and train (with accompanying expensive gear), and direct physical contact would have been for the fortunate few. The chariot kraters allowed a broader segment of the population to engage with horses and chariots, albeit indirectly.

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Section: Horse–human Relations In Late Bronze Age Greece and Cyprusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Chariot Kraters and Horse–human Relations in Late Bronze Age Greece and Cyprus

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Morris

2021

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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“…Indeed, zoonotic pathogens that emerged in this way in Africa, Europe, and Asia constituted many of the "germs" of Jared Diamond's wildly popular Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997). Th is was an attempt at what Harriet Ritvo calls "epic" historical narrative that purports to explain the success of "old world" human populations economically and militarily using ecological concepts (Ritvo 2004;see also McNeill 1976). Th us, the making of distinct spaces and categories of "domestic" and "wild" in human practice over time may have contributed to a recognition of precarious interspecies connection.…”

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Humans, Animals, and Health: From Ecology to Entanglement

Nading¹

2013

Environment and Society

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Medical and environmental social scientists have recently become interested in how health brings human and nonhuman animals together. Th is article discusses historical approaches to this question. It then explores applied disease ecology, which examines how anthropogenic landscape change leads to "disease emergence. " Th e article goes on to review two critical approaches to the question. Critics of biosecurity concern themselves with the ways in which animal and human lives are regulated in the context of "emerging diseases" such as avian infl uenza and foot and mouth disease. Scholarship on human-animal "entanglement" focuses on the ways in which disease, instead of alienating humans from other life forms, brings their intimate relationships into sharper relief. Th e article argues that health is one terrain for developing a critical environmental analysis of the production of life, where life is the ongoing, dynamic result of human and nonhuman interactions over time.

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“…A dedicated book series at Johns Hopkins University Press provides a home for scholarship on this topic. Though only some identify themselves as environmental historians, scholars in animal studies are producing a variety of work of interest to our field (Ritvo 2004;Henninger-Voss 2002;Derry 2003;Creager and Jordan 2002;Jones 2003;Thomas 1983).…”

Section: Animals and Environmental Historymentioning

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Fauna: A Prospectus for Evolutionary History

Russell

2010

A Companion to American Environmental History

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Animal Planet

Cited by 30 publications

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Chariot Kraters and Horse–human Relations in Late Bronze Age Greece and Cyprus

Chariot Kraters and Horse–human Relations in Late Bronze Age Greece and Cyprus

Humans, Animals, and Health: From Ecology to Entanglement

Fauna: A Prospectus for Evolutionary History

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