Stag and Stone - Religion, Archaeology and Esoteric Aesthetics - Jay Johnston
Chapter 5. Transpecies Narrative: Strange and Shifty Beasts
Stag and Stone - Religion, Archaeology and Esoteric Aesthetics - Jay Johnston
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University of Sydney
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Jay Johnston is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the interface of religious studies, art history, continental philosophy and cultural studies. Her research is centrally concerned with the interrelationship of aesthetics and ethics, theories of embodiment and agency, ritual material culture, epistemology and multispecies studies.
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Developing the analysis of 'shamanism' and material culture and extending the analysis of 'troublesome' objects, this chapter presents an interpretation of narratives (written and visual) that feature transpecies beings. These figures challenge ontological, epistemological and conceptual boundaries. The scholarly productivity of such 'messy' figures is identified and then exemplified as the foundation for a methodology of enquiry.