Reversible America : Cowboys, Clowns, and Bullfighters
Ouvrage de Frédéric Saumade and Jean-Baptiste Maudet (Berghahn editor, Oxford, 2024)
Description
Rodeo, cattle ranching, and bullfighting converge in the arenas of race, gender, and ethics in Reversible America. In Southwestern California, these sports manifest in spectacular expressions of transcultural interactions that continue to develop through border crossings. Using an interdisciplinary scope, this unique look into the subculture negotiates the paradoxes and connections between the popular American performances, Iberian bullfighting, and Native American hunting methods, along with the relationship between human and non-human beings, and systems of value across borders.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Why California is so Reversible?
American Perspectivism Considered from an Arena Scope
Chapter 1. The Technical, Sociological, and Spatial Characteristics of Bull Sports in California
Chapter 2. Territories and Networks of Cattle Raising for Bull Sports in California
Chapter 3. From Territory to Spectacle, or the Genesis
of the American Culture of Wilderness and the Wild
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Translated from the French
318 pages, 23 ills., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80539-579-9 / Hb / Published (July 2024)
eISBN 978-1-80539-580-5 eBook
https://doi.org/10.3167/9781805395799