Game Killing and Killing Games
An Anthropologist Looking at Hunting in a Modern Society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8096815 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heidi Dahles (0000-0003-1239-1718, 1TILBURG UNIVERSITY, THE NETHERLANDS, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 169-184 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Society and Animals (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1063-1119 • E-ISSN: 1568-5306 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/156853093x00064 |
| OpenAlex | W2021944698 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 7 |
In modern urbanized and densely populated societies - such as the contemporary Netherlands, which forms the geographical setting of the present analysis - hunting has lost its meaning as a mode of subsistence to become a symbolic strategy. Hunting is a cultural enclave in which the boundaries between humans and animals are blurred and the relations of dominance and submission symbolically reversed. Hunting challenges the legitimacy of apparently "given" power relations between humans and animals. Hunters construct, reproduce and legitimize hunting by crossing the boundaries between humans and animals. Hunting "for pleasure" is regarded as truly pleasurable only if it allows a reversal of the asymmetrical power relations between humans and animals, attributing almost human characteristerics to the game-species. In theircognitive schemes hunters measure their power and abilities with strong, cunning and preferably male opponents. Game-species share an ambivalent status between the human and the animal realms, the tame and the wild, and between their instrumental and expressive signifccance. Hunting "for pleasure" is justified by this very ambivalence
Aesthetics · Agriculture · Ambivalence · Art · Construct (python library · Dominance (genetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ethnology · Geography · Legitimacy · Meaning (existential · Pleasure · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Subsistence agriculture · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Psychology · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation · Law · Philosophy · Social Psychology
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Manliness and the“Morality of Field Sports”
The Emotional Dimensions of Animal Disease Management
The hunting industry
The Causes of Animal Abuse
Topics Awaiting Study
Hunting the Exotic
Hunting communities of practice
A dividing issue
Is recreational hunting important for landscape multi-functionality? Evidence from Denmark
(De)legitimising hunting – Discourses over the morality of hunting in Europe and eastern Africa
Power battles on South African trophy-hunting farms
Casual killing in the home
Recreational Hunting
Ethics, Hunting Tales, and the Multispecies Debate
Naturalizing Sports
Body Pedagogics, Transactional Identities and Human-Animal Relations
Defining the True Hunter
Haunted by hunting
Leisure or Labour
Neo-Darwinian Leisures, the Body and Nature
An Elephant in the Room
Hunting, Social Structure and Human-Nature Relationships in Lower Omo, Ethiopia
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,87 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2026 (32) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |