La corporéité cynégétique

• Main Author: Christophe Baticle
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: UMR 245 - CESSMA 2013-01-01
• Series: Carnets de Géographes
• Subjects: representations; identity
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/cdg/1055

The practise of hunting requires a symbolic initiation linked to the social side of things, as well as an initiation through the body which itself finds its place in the territory. We must keep in mind that the finality here is the crafty tactics you use facing the game, this very game having its own logical behaviour. So while studying the strategies related to hunting, you can easily discover that playing with the animal can’t be reduced to the mirror image of social representations. Moreover, the way wild life behaves, acts as powerful vector in the hunting scene. The way animals behave lead to human interpretations that induce questions related to social determinism when a third acting party intervenes between the human being and his territory; a wild animal inducing a reflexivity of some sort.