Na seminarju Inštituta za slovensko narodopisje bo v petek, 10. 4. 2026, ob 12. uri v Dvorani štirih letnih časov ZRC SAZU Jaro Stacul z Univerze v Varšavi predaval o političnih dimenzijah lova v Evropi, natančneje v Italiji.
Knowing One’s Place: Hunters and Poachers in the Italian Eastern Alps
Most anthropological works have treated hunting in western societies as a ritual replay of humans’ problematic relationship with nature, yet hunting’s political dimension has so far been largely overlooked. This paper discusses hunting practices in the Italian Alps of Trentino in the context of the ascendancy of regionalist and populist political forces which have altered the Italian political landscape since the 1990s. In examining the ways in which hunting symbolically turns territory into ‘private property’ and becomes functional to processes such as the ‘production of locality’, the paper shows that hunting, as a form of interaction with landscape, also conceals memories and myths. In highlighting these connections, the paper pursues the argument that hunting also expresses local-level views of regionalist politics, especially by making landscape the context for contesting aspects of nationhood such as domination and encompassment.
Jaro Stacul holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. He has held positions in various academic and research institutions in Australia, Britain, Bulgaria, and Canada. Currently, he is Assistant Professor of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw. He focuses on issues of populism, migration, and the state in Europe (Italy and Poland). He undertook his doctoral research on localism and regional identity in the Italian Alps of Trentino at a time when regionalist political forces were making big inroads in the area. He has recently carried out long-term fieldwork, funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, on right-wing populism in Poland, and has subsequently undertaken a new research project on the Polish diaspora in Australia. Currently, he is conducting research on how undergraduate students in Atlantic Canada balance work and study. His publications include the monograph The bounded field: Localism and local identity in an Italian Alpine valley and the book, edited with Christina Moutsou and Helen Kopnina, Crossing European boundaries: Beyond conventional geographical categories, both published by Berghahn Books.
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