Ritual treatment of animal remains after hunt and consumption as an act of reciprocity with animal persons is a widespread practice among ethnographically documented northern hunter-gatherer societies. Often these practices and their associated set of beliefs are discussed as part of a broader complex of circumpolar cosmology and religion which is assumed to have arisen from historical continuities within the region and is assigned considerable time depth on that basis. However, the aforementioned practices and beliefs are by no means unique and can also be attested among various tropical hunter-gatherer groups. By way of a critical discussion of the “ontological turn” and enactivist theory, this paper suggests that, rather than through historical connections, the hunting rituals and beliefs may be better explained within the context of developmental histories of structural coupling between hunter and prey affected by bodily and empathic resonance and the complexity of the relation between epistemology and ontology.

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狩猎 - 采集社会中动物遗骸的狩猎意识形态和仪式处理：一种活跃的人类学方法

作为与动物人的互惠行为，在狩猎和消费后对动物遗骸进行仪式处理是在民族志记录的北方狩猎采集社会中的普遍做法。通常，这些实践及其相关的一系列信仰被作为更广泛的环极宇宙学和宗教综合体的一部分进行讨论，这些综合体被认为是从该地区的历史连续性中产生的，并在此基础上分配了相当大的时间深度。然而，上述习俗和信仰绝不是独一无二的，也可以在各种热带狩猎采集群体中得到证实。通过对“本体论转向”和生成主义理论的批判性讨论，本文建议，而不是通过历史联系，