Reversible pigs: an infraspecies ethnography of wild boars in Barcelona

[eng] The idea of “species” is the main unit for representing ecological relations. But what would an ecology look like if we started by tracing its relations from below the species threshold? By deploying an infraspecies ethnography, I show how, in suburban Barcelona, human and wild boar individual...

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Autor: Arregui, Aníbal G.
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
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Palavra-chave:Catalunya
Ecologia
Etnografia
Senglar
Catalonia
Ecology
Ethnography
Wild boar
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spelling Reversible pigs: an infraspecies ethnography of wild boars in BarcelonaArregui, Aníbal G.CatalunyaEcologiaEtnografiaSenglarCataloniaEcologyEthnographyWild boar[eng] The idea of “species” is the main unit for representing ecological relations. But what would an ecology look like if we started by tracing its relations from below the species threshold? By deploying an infraspecies ethnography, I show how, in suburban Barcelona, human and wild boar individuals relate in personal, creative ways, and how in doing so, they also reshape their quotidian ecologies from the bottom up. Departing from species-level imaginaries of wildlife managers, suburban residents cope with wild boars not only as idiosyncratic specimens but also as reversible beings: pigs that are simultaneously “wild” and “tame,” “rural” and “urban,” “pest” and “neighbor.” Shifting the attention from relations between coherent species to the situated encounters between singular specimens unveils how individuals weave reversible relations, remake ecologies, and navigate the uncertainty of emerging human-animal intimacies.American Anthropological Association2023info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/216252Articles publicats en revistes (Antropologia Social)reponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de BarcelonaInglésReproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13114American Ethnologist, 2023, vol. 50, num.1https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13114cc-by (c) Arregui, Aníbal G., 2023http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/2162522026-05-27T06:46:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Reversible pigs: an infraspecies ethnography of wild boars in Barcelona
title Reversible pigs: an infraspecies ethnography of wild boars in Barcelona
spellingShingle Reversible pigs: an infraspecies ethnography of wild boars in Barcelona
Arregui, Aníbal G.
Catalunya
Ecologia
Etnografia
Senglar
Catalonia
Ecology
Ethnography
Wild boar
title_short Reversible pigs: an infraspecies ethnography of wild boars in Barcelona
title_full Reversible pigs: an infraspecies ethnography of wild boars in Barcelona
title_fullStr Reversible pigs: an infraspecies ethnography of wild boars in Barcelona
title_full_unstemmed Reversible pigs: an infraspecies ethnography of wild boars in Barcelona
title_sort Reversible pigs: an infraspecies ethnography of wild boars in Barcelona
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Arregui, Aníbal G.
author Arregui, Aníbal G.
author_facet Arregui, Aníbal G.
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Catalunya
Ecologia
Etnografia
Senglar
Catalonia
Ecology
Ethnography
Wild boar
topic Catalunya
Ecologia
Etnografia
Senglar
Catalonia
Ecology
Ethnography
Wild boar
description [eng] The idea of “species” is the main unit for representing ecological relations. But what would an ecology look like if we started by tracing its relations from below the species threshold? By deploying an infraspecies ethnography, I show how, in suburban Barcelona, human and wild boar individuals relate in personal, creative ways, and how in doing so, they also reshape their quotidian ecologies from the bottom up. Departing from species-level imaginaries of wildlife managers, suburban residents cope with wild boars not only as idiosyncratic specimens but also as reversible beings: pigs that are simultaneously “wild” and “tame,” “rural” and “urban,” “pest” and “neighbor.” Shifting the attention from relations between coherent species to the situated encounters between singular specimens unveils how individuals weave reversible relations, remake ecologies, and navigate the uncertainty of emerging human-animal intimacies.
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