Tag Archives: Equestrian
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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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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Learning to wield my ‘fat finger’ appropriately
Everytime I hear “el dedo gordo“, I can’t help but translate it in my head as the fat finger/digit, rather than just the thumb. Today I spent a lot of time thinking about thumbs and where they should go and … Continue reading
Posted in Horses, Learning, Uncategorized
Tagged Andalusia, Anthropology, Breeds, Equestrian, Horse, Thumb
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Anthropology among the bulls 