Animals and Plants Familiar to Humans : anthropozoology and anthropobotany : transversal seminar of the UMR 7209 AASPE (session n° 2)
Résumé
Placed under the sponsorship of F. Poplin (Honorary Director of UMR 7209 AASPE - Archaeozoology, Archaeobotany: societies, practices and environments) who lead for several years the seminar of Anthropozoology at the MNHN. This new transversal seminar of the UMR AASPE is built on the deep knowledge about the relations that structure the construction and the evolution of human societies and their interactions with their animal and plant environment. The seminar began in 2021 with a session devoted to the material and symbolic relations between humans and ibex. It will continue this year with a second session, devoted to the relations between humans and red deer (male and females). The close interactions between Animals, Plants and Humans will be apprehended from their often founding roles both on the material level (food, medicine, crafts, transformation and production of equipment), socio-economic (form of acquisition - hunting, fishing, collection/gathering, breeding, agro-horticulture...], organization [notion of territory, collective or individual action, sedentary vs. nomadic life...] as well as symbolic (integration to the mythologies/cosmogony of the societies, cultural/ritual practices and interaction with other practices) and in the field of popular or learned knowledge. All these interactions will be evoked through the presentation of specific cases or in the framework of an analytical synthesis. The chronological scale is open to all periods (from prehistory to the present day) and, as a result, opens the seminar to all the disciplinary fields whose subject of study is human societies and their and their environments.