The Art of Pigging. Embodied aesthetics in practice and social media among Australian hunters.

0565953 - EÚ 2023 eng A - Abstrakt
Keil, Paul G.
The Art of Pigging. Embodied aesthetics in practice and social media among Australian hunters.
[What is Hunting? Anthropological perspectives on (pig) hunting. 27.11.2022-30.11.2022, Třešť]
Grant CEP: GA MŠMT(CZ) EF20_079/0017525
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378076
Klíčová slova: hunting * aesthetics * feral pig
Obor OECD: Antropology, ethnology

In this paper I aim to explore why “pigdoggers” hunt and understand the values they seek and share through hunting. Pigdogging is the method of hunting pigs with the aid of dogs. The dog grabs the pig by the ear or bails the pig into the corner and the hunter kills the pig either by shooting or mostly with a knife to the heart. To analyse the meaning of hunting I draw on the idea of aesthetics, which on the surface, and given its visceral, gory, and brutal method, are qualities not immediately apparent. It requires that we have a concept of aesthetics beyond the contemplation of beauty, the good, and the proper, and which understands aesthetics as pertaining to embodied experience and meaning. This draft revisits and builds upon a prior paper in which I analysed the sensual atmosphere created through hunting. I find aesthetics as useful idea for touching on different aspects of pigdogging: hunting is an experience choreographed by the hunter, there is an aesthetic sensibility for those seeking to encounter with a “good boar” and partner with a dog, and, composing photographs on social media are an important part of the contemporary pigdogging community.
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0337860