![]() From an emphasis on architecture and landscape, to an invitation to improvise with incidental audiences in public space, from historical research into a site and its users, to an offering of private stories from the trainees’ pasts: departure points proposed to those in training engage a range of performative modes, and identify a variety of complex needs as training progresses."Though crossed by caravans and Covenant troops going to and from Cyrodiil, this wild region of eastern Hammerfell is a virtual no-man's-land. This article’s analysis focuses on starting points for student training in this area. I am interested in developing a national and international conversation about ways of teaching site-based practices, and investigating trends and frictions, as well as the implications of these for trainee practitioners. Scholars and practitioners of these performance practices rarely write about their teaching in this area, which has the effect of creating a closed set of pedagogies that become tied to a particular person. Using interviews with practitioners and scholars in this field as an investigative research methodology, the article analyses the multiplicity of approaches to teaching this slippery, outdoors. This project explores training methodologies for sited, interactive and/or immersive practices in universities in the UK. This article presents analysis drawn from the research project, ‘Teaching On Site’. Such changes may have represented in part socially-mediated responses to a local expression of the Little Ice Age global climatic phenomenon. Paralleling these changes was the appearance of new ritual sites linked spiritually to seascapes such as dugong bone arrangements, stone arrangements and shell arrangements. These changes herald the emergence of ethnographically-known social arrangements marked by a rapid phase of site establishment and intensified site use consistent with population increase. While recent research indicates an antiquity of at least 4000 years for marine specialists in Torres Strait, Dauan 4 follows a suite of sites across the Strait demonstrating major cultural changes taking place within the last 600-800 years. The presence of bipolar micro-cores less than 10mm in length reveals extreme reduction of quartz, possibly for manufacture of small skin cutting tools. These rituals of sensory allurement provide new avenues for exploring the ontological relationship of ancient hunters to prey.Įxcavations at Dauan 4 on the island of Dauan in the Top Western Islands of Torres Strait revealed a 700 year sequence created by marine specialists who ate turtle, dugong, fish and shellfish and employed mostly a flaked quartz technology. Ethnographic and archaeological data reveal that ear bones were purposefully extracted from dugong skulls and used as hunting charms to ritually mediate dialogue between hunters and prey. This spiritual dimension of marine mammal hunting is explored archaeologically using dugong ear bones found within mounded ritual deposits of dugong bones in Torres Strait, north-east Australia. Significantly, this dialogue is often mediated ritually by material culture that incorporates prey body parts, particularly sensory organs of the head. It is usually through the senses that communicative conduits are established so hunters can better know what prey are thinking and cognitively control prey behaviour. Founded upon the ontological status of prey as kin, marine mammal hunters often establish interpersonal dialogue with prey to aid hunting success. It also provides a window into how societies may ritually construct, manipulate and navigate the human-animal divide as a liminal and permeable boundary. Hunting as praxis provides an opportunity to investigate how humans and animals meet economically and ontologically.
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