The Value of Common Bracken Revisited

Based on a walking ethnography, this photo essay employs sensory ethnography to explore multispecies relationality in steljniki, plots of land traditionally used for grazing and the harvesting of common bracken. Through work in subsistence-based extensive farming, humans have formed multispecies re...

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Main Author: Barbara Turk Niskač
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Language:English
Published: Suomen Antropologinen Seura (Finnish Anthropological Society) 2025-04-01
Series:Suomen Antropologi
Online Access:https://journal.fi/suomenantropologi/article/view/141505
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