Hunting ghosts: on spectacles of spectrality and the trophy animal

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In lieu of material encounters, nonhuman spectres are made sense through spectacles, imageries speculated upon with their own geographies and affects. This paper explores histories trophy hunting in the Spanish Pyrenees, illustrating emergence spectacular relation to contemporary ideals nature for hunters, particular questioning implications extinction bucardo (or Pyrenean ibex). Theoretically, this converses Jacques Derrida’s metaphor spectrality Guy Debord’s conceptualisation spectacle understand how ghost animals removes them from ecological contexts. Trophy taxidermic practice serves produce spectacles at interface life death, detaching temporal linearities, allowing speak broader sentiments mastery over landscape. The was a ghostly figure prior its extinction, famously difficult encounter kill by 19 th century, as such absence marked trophies infer presence I trace changing significances development photographic technologies; camera’s spread widespread use, spectral were produced practice. A typology is offered sensing ghosts cultural contexts: mourning, or attempt ontologise remains; marking, conditional attribution language spectral; working, means which transforms itself transformed.

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عنوان ژورنال: cultural geographies

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1474-4740', '1477-0881']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474020987250