Category Archives: Appreciation

The World of the Bulls: An Anthropologist’s Gold Mine

Posted on November 12, 2014 by

At the beginning of October, in a blog article about a bullfight in Corella, Navarra, taurine photographers and bloggers Gorka Azpilicueta and Arsenio Ramírez suggested that for an anthropologist like myself the world of the bulls represents a gold mine … Continue reading →

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A step in the right direction? From Madrid to Corella, Navarra.

Posted on September 24, 2014 by

“Happy, but not satisfied” sums up the feelings of the foreman of Partido de Resina after last Sunday’s corrida in Madrid. There’s more work to be done but the outcome was basically good. The critics – as always – gave … Continue reading →

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Spectacular days

Posted on April 27, 2014 by

It’s April and things are really starting to kick off after a quiet winter in the Villamanrique de la Condesa area. If there’s is one word that covers everything that has happened in the last few weeks – from the … Continue reading →

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An homage to the older cow and horse hands out there

Posted on February 4, 2014 by

The other week, I took this photo of photo of three relatively young men heading out to tag newborn calves at Partido de Resina and some of the comments that were made about the photo on twitter said how good … Continue reading →

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