TY - JOUR
T1 - The Relational Nature of Song in Musical Human-Animal Interactions in Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Traditional Territory, Yukon
AU - Ranspot, Tamara
N1 - This paper is based upon research conducted with the support of grants from the ERC Arctic Domus project at the University of Aberdeen, the American Philosophical Society's Phillips Fund, and the Jacobs Research Funds, as well as an Elphinstone Scholarship from the University of Aberdeen. I am most indebted to my friends in the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in community and particularly to the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in Heritage Department for their partnership and support in this research and for all they shared with me—Mahsi Cho!
PY - 2019/9/19
Y1 - 2019/9/19
N2 - This paper brings together emergent conversations in the disciplines of ethnobiology, anthropology, and ethnomusicology to examine the role of song in human-animal relationships in the context of the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in First Nation in and around Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. Song has always been a critical tool in Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in human-animal interactions, as a powerful means of communicating with or about animals, who are understood to be non-human persons. This paper argues that the particular sentimental and communicative natures of song are mobilized as a means to promote, reinforce, and embody a certain set of relational values in the biocultural lifeways of Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in citizens. Recently Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in are turning to song as a means of negotiating the effects of global climate change, particularly as these critical relationships become more tenuous and unpredictable.
AB - This paper brings together emergent conversations in the disciplines of ethnobiology, anthropology, and ethnomusicology to examine the role of song in human-animal relationships in the context of the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in First Nation in and around Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. Song has always been a critical tool in Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in human-animal interactions, as a powerful means of communicating with or about animals, who are understood to be non-human persons. This paper argues that the particular sentimental and communicative natures of song are mobilized as a means to promote, reinforce, and embody a certain set of relational values in the biocultural lifeways of Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in citizens. Recently Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in are turning to song as a means of negotiating the effects of global climate change, particularly as these critical relationships become more tenuous and unpredictable.
KW - Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in
KW - environmental change
KW - human-animal interactions
KW - relationality
KW - song
KW - Tr'ondek Hwech'in
KW - DANCE
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85072649454&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2993/0278-0771-39.3.478
DO - 10.2993/0278-0771-39.3.478
M3 - Article
VL - 39
SP - 478
EP - 491
JO - Journal of ethnobotany
JF - Journal of ethnobotany
IS - 3
ER -
