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Yafei Wang
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Yafei Wang
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Voage to the lower world
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Chthulucene
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Right now, the earth is full of refugees, human and not, without refuge.
Multispecies Ethnography
Coronavirus has crossed species boundaries as medium, and as usual, these charges have been pinned on animals that cannot speak for themselves, obscuring the causes of today's ecological crisis - why do people eat wild animals? What does it really mean to eat these wild animals? From Africa to Asia to the Americas, we can easily find traces of people eating wild animals. Because the species is rare, because they are auspicious, because of their medicinal value, etc. Over thousands of years, human objectification of these animals has been solidified in iteration, and new age humans are breaking species boundaries with these self-created cultures. In this blue planet, animals, plants, bacteria, viruses and microorganisms should not be the object of consumption, but together with people, jointly manufacture, production, weaving the time and space on which we live and the planet.
Donna J. Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Duke University Press, 2016).
Right now, the earth is full of refugees, human and not, without refuge.
- Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, 2016
Keywords
food culture, human and non-human species,Multispecies Ethnography
Abstract
Coronavirus has crossed species boundaries as medium, and as usual, these charges have been pinned on animals that cannot speak for themselves, obscuring the causes of today's ecological crisis - why do people eat wild animals? What does it really mean to eat these wild animals? From Africa to Asia to the Americas, we can easily find traces of people eating wild animals. Because the species is rare, because they are auspicious, because of their medicinal value, etc. Over thousands of years, human objectification of these animals has been solidified in iteration, and new age humans are breaking species boundaries with these self-created cultures. In this blue planet, animals, plants, bacteria, viruses and microorganisms should not be the object of consumption, but together with people, jointly manufacture, production, weaving the time and space on which we live and the planet.
The illustrations are build on Donna Haraways’ Staying with trouble. Painted by animal patterns, fables, and the historical medicinal and edible value of animals. Hopefully, this will make people think again about why we eat these animals and re-examine the symbiotic relationship between human and non-human species .
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