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- Title
The Fox-Hunting Debate In The United Kingdom: A Puritan Legacy?
- Authors
Pardo, Italo; Prato, Giuliana B.
- Abstract
This article is based on extended fieldwork carried out in the United Kingdom and particularly in Kent between 1997 and 2001. The discussion addresses key social and cultural issues highlighted by the contemporary British debate on hunting with hounds and their political, legislative and economic significance. As social anthropologists with a research interest, and subsequent participation, in hunting with hounds in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, we find this debate fascinating. It must be understood in the context of the Judeo-Christian ethic and its influence on Western views of nature and on the relationship between humankind and the natural environment. Western attitudes toward hunting belong to a historically identifiable process; from the mediaeval view of nature as an object of romantic conquest — hence, hunting as a 'noble sport,' a special rite of passage into manhood — to the 17th century Puritanical condemnation of hunting as morally and socially debasing, to the 19th century Evangelical concern for animal rights.
- Subjects
HUNTING; ANTHROPOLOGISTS; ANIMAL rights; ECOLOGY; DEBATE; ATTITUDE (Psychology); RITES &; ceremonies; HUMAN beings; HOUNDS
- Publication
Human Ecology Review, 2005, Vol 12, Issue 2, p143
- ISSN
1074-4827
- Publication type
Article