Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: The presence of non‐endemic ‘Alien Big Cats’ (ABCs) in Britain is an oft debated topic in the press and the public sphere, especially in rural areas where agriculture is the dominant industry. Based on seven years of fieldwork in a farming community in rural Ceredigion, West Wales, this paper considers the ‘Big Cat’ phenomenon from the perspectives of informants for whom inexplicable livestock losses must be accounted for and ‘rationalised’. Moreover, in this ethnographic context, ABCs, like other transgressive non‐human animals, have become particularly powerful metaphors for the humans who encounter them.
Source: Anthropology Today
Author: Samantha Hurn
Institution: University of Wales
Language: English
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2071968306