For the Love of Antlers: Heads on a Wall or Antlers on a Bride<br>U ime rogova. Glave na zidu ili rogovi na nevjesti</br>

Authors

  • Maja Pasarić Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Šubičeva 42, HR-10 000 Zagreb, Croatia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/sms.v21i0.7074

Keywords:

antlers, deer, trophy, decor, material culture

Abstract

Deer head and antlers are specific parts of the animal body embedded with complex symbolic implications and as pars pro toto represent the entire animal. Certain cultural practices of animal objectification within our contemporary society denote these parts of animals’ bodies as trophies, decorations, and designed objects, which then become markers of individual human identities, lifestyles, and particular living spaces. However, such new meanings inscribed into these animal materialities do not necessarily classify them as passive objects. It has been acknowledged that material culture objects continually transform in meanings through their own accumulative biographies.

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Published

2018-10-25

How to Cite

Pasarić, M. (2018). For the Love of Antlers: Heads on a Wall or Antlers on a Bride<br>U ime rogova. Glave na zidu ili rogovi na nevjesti</br>. Studia Mythologica Slavica, 21, 217–235. https://doi.org/10.3986/sms.v21i0.7074

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Section

ONKRAJ DELITVE NARAVE IN KULTURE / BEYOND THE DICHOTOMY OF NATURE AND CULTURE: ONTOLOGIES AND EPISTEMOLOGIES