Deception in practice

Hunting and bullfighting entanglements in southern Spain

Bibliographic Data

ID2227340
AuthorsSantiago M Cruzada (0000-0002-9687-8445, Universidad Pablo de Olavide), E Ruiz-Ballesteros (0000-0002-6270-0593, Universidad Pablo de Olavide), Alberto Del Campo Tejedor (0000-0001-7374-6215, Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
Year2019
Volume9
Issue3
Pages514-528
Publication date2019-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2049-1115 • E-ISSN: 2575-1433
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/706804
OpenAlexW3004779695
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited45

Deception is a recurrent strategy deployed in the relations between human beings, between humans and animals, and even between animals, and is normally analyzed from a perspective that emphasizes its discursive nature and certain of its ontological, epistemological and axiological effects. According to this orthodox view, deception falsifies, distorts, and conceals reality; it thus equates to a lie and is consequently devalued by it. An analysis of two ethnographic contexts of human-animal relations in southern Spain-partridge hunting and bullfighting-allows us to go beyond such a univocal and simple notion of deception. Through our analysis we wish to problematize and reconceptualize that notion, in a way that considers it as a practice and even as a resource; as a form of knowledge that fosters interaction and the generation of singular frameworks of experience, in which reality, the product of that deception, is lived-paradoxically-in terms of truth

Deception · Epistemology · Ethnography · Perspective (graphical · Self-deception · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation · Artificial Intelligence