Beyond the Hunt
- Autor(en)
- Seda Pesen
- Abstrakt
This essay pursues to demonstrate that travelogues from the colonial period containing narratives about the hunting of and by great apes became a narrative tool in which racialized ideologies, as well as gender political agendas, found expression. Due to their unfamiliarity in Europe, their morphological and ethological similarity to humans, the encounters with the great apes unsettled the boundaries between human and animal. Operating in dichotomies, I will demonstrate how hunting as a male-connotated practice opened up a multidimensional field on the categories of race and gender to devalue the humanity of black and indigenous people and to stabilize the social position of the white, male subject. The essay will show, how the narratives from travelogues travelled through the 16th and 18th centuries, circulating through the realms of science and politics to serve as ideological agents
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Kunstgeschichte
- Publikationsdatum
- 2023
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 605002 Kulturgeschichte
- Schlagwörter
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/72aadda8-37d4-41c0-b8af-00fc2ec5333a