fox hunting as ritual

Abstract

The continuing cultural importance of hunting in modern Western societies, especially to some elites, justifies increased attention from anthropologists. English fox hunting can be seen as a ritual of social class, one dramatizing themes and images about the gentry and aristocracy, and about rural society as a whole. The present analysis stresses the importance of examining the symbolic forms of modern society in a historical perspective, and it raises the possibility that some key symbols may be second‐best substitutes or approximations of an ideal. [hunting, ritual, symbolism, social class, England]

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