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The World of the Bulls: An Anthropologist’s Gold Mine
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
Posted in Appreciation, Bullfights, Corrals, Countryside, Dehesa, General/Introduction, Horses, Learning, Pilgrimage, Uncategorized, Vaccination, Vets, Yearlings
Tagged Alexander Fiske-Harrison, Andalusia, Animal, Anthropology, Arena, Baby animals, Breeders, Breeds, Bull, Bullfighting, bulls, Calf, Cattle, Countryside, cows, Cute, Dehesa, Equestrian, Fighting stock, Horse, horses, Hot Branding, Livestock, Partido de Resina, Scotland, Sevilla, Spain, Villamanrique de la Condesa, Youngstock
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A step in the right direction? From Madrid to Corella, Navarra.
“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
Posted in Appreciation, Bullfights, General/Introduction
Tagged Andalusia, Anthropology, Arena, Bullfighting, bulls, Cattle, Corella, Countryside, Fighting stock, Las Ventas, Madrid, Navarra, Pamplona, Partido de Resina, Sevilla, Spain, Villamanrique de la Condesa
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Spectacular days
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
Posted in Appreciation, Countryside, Dehesa, General/Introduction, Semana Santa (Holy Week), Spring, Uncategorized
Tagged Andalucía, Andalusia, Animal, Anthropology, Beautiful, Bullfighting, bulls, Cattle, Colour, Countryside, cows, Dehesa, Fighting stock, Flowers, Livestock, Partido de Resina, Photography, Sevilla, Spain, Spring, Villamanrique de la Condesa
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An homage to the older cow and horse hands out there
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
Posted in Appreciation, Corrals, General/Introduction, Horses, Learning, Uncategorized
Tagged Andalucía, Andalusia, Animal, Anthropology, Appreciation, Bullfighting, bulls, Cattle, Countryside, Equestrian, fans, Fighting stock, Horse, horses, Livestock, Old, Older, Oldlings, Partido de Resina, passion, Spain, The elderly, Venerable, Younglings
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