Tag Archives: horses

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

Posted on November 12, 2014 by Robin Irvine

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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An homage to the older cow and horse hands out there

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Robin Irvine

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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Welcome note

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Robin Irvine

Greetings from Andalucía and welcome to my blog, where I’ll be posting about some of the encounters that occur over the course of my doctoral fieldwork in the marshlands southwest of Sevilla. You can read more about by project on … Continue reading →

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