Nineteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

Abstract

Based on long-term ethnographic research, this paper focuses on how environmental changes reflect in and through human-animal relations. To address the width of these relations examples of interactions between people and domesticated (sheep, horses) and wild animals (birds, fish) will be presented. Moreover, the temporal and seasonal dimension will be emphasized as the relations between humans and other species often unfold through specific cyclical rhythms. The rupture of these rhythms and the corresponding shifts in human-animal co-habitation can offer an ethnographically-informed understanding of local perceptions and responses to changing environment.