“They Feed Here and Live There”

Borderwork with Wildlife in Slovenia’s North-East Corner

Authors

  • Miha Kozorog ZRC SAZU, Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, Novi trg 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2019480108

Keywords:

wildlife, international border, borderwork, farming, hunting, multispecies ethnography, anthropology of borders, actor-network theory, Goričko (Slovenia), Szlovén Rába-vidék (Hungary)

Abstract

This paper explores how wildlife’s purposeful migrations across the Hungarian-Slovenian border engenders relations between nonhumans and humans and stimulates people’s borderwork activities. Following a lead from Stef Jansen’s argument about the incompatibility of symmetrical and asymmetrical treatment of humans and nonhumans, the author performs a two-step analysis of animals’ involvement in borderwork.

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19.12.2019

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Kozorog, M. (2019). “They Feed Here and Live There”: Borderwork with Wildlife in Slovenia’s North-East Corner. Traditiones, 48(1), 191–211. https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2019480108

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Vol. 48 No. 1 (2019): ZAVAROVANA OBMOČJA OB SLOVENSKO-MADŽARSKI MEJI / PROTECTED AREAS ALONG THE SLOVENIAN-HUNGARIAN BORDER

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ZAVAROVANA OBMOČJA OB SLOVENSKO-MADŽARSKI MEJI / PROTECTED AREAS ALONG THE SLOVENIAN-HUNGARIAN BORDER

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