Learning to Ride in Early Modern Britain, or, The Making of the English Hunting Seat

Landry, Donna

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“…It was associated with demonstrating equestrian skills relevant to military prowess, but became more linked to 'Continental' riding over time. Partly, this had to do with the evolution of the 'hunting seat' -a method of riding with short stirrups that permits the rider to follow the horse's movement over fences -which was characterised as 'British' (see Landry, 2005). 4 The 'thoroughbred' is the type of horse bred selectively since the mid-eighteenth century specifically for speed in racing.…”

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Natural Relations: Horses, Knowledge, Technology

Latimer

Birke

2009

The Sociological Review

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Maintaining the tensions and divisions between the human and non-human, nature and culture has been a mainstay of Euro-American thought. Drawing upon two studies of people's associations with horses, we examine how these divisions are being reworked in the social sciences as well in everyday life. We focus on how different ideas about 'horses', 'horsemanship' and how knowledge is acquired, accomplishes different social worlds. Specifically, what emerges in these differential discourses is that a paradox is put into play to make a distinction between traditional and contemporary ways of being in relation to nature and the animal; it is the paradox of what we want to refer to as 'natural technologies'. We suggest that the paradox of 'natural technologies' is a proliferating feature of Euro-American cultural life that troubles old divisions between nature and culture and propose that it indicates less about a politics of nature than a politics of culture. Specifically, we show that the preoccupation with bringing nature, and the non-human, more into alignment with the human promotes ethics and equality as matters of lifestyle choice to the exclusion of very specific ideas about tradition, hierarchy, evolution and socialization.

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Natural Relations: Horses, Knowledge, Technology

Latimer

Birke

2009

The Sociological Review

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“…De même la monte à l'anglaise fondée sur la chasse et l'équitation d'extérieur, imposant une posture libre et autrement assise du cavalier qui s'adapte mieux à tous les terrains, devient une allégorie des libertés britanniques qu'on oppose aux airs convenus et peu utiles du manège à la française. Au terme du 18 e siècle, le cheval est plus que jamais la plus belle conquête de l'homme et le premier des animaux politiques 28 . C'est encore l'instrument et le symbole du pouvoir de la classe dominante, un moyen qui va se maintenir de la distinction sociale attachée à une culture équestre réservée aux élites.…”

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Les chevaux au 18e siècle

Roche¹

2010

Dix-Huitième Siècle

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Steal Of A Turk

Landry¹

2007

Prose Studies

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Learning to Ride in Early Modern Britain, or, The Making of the English Hunting Seat

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Natural Relations: Horses, Knowledge, Technology

Natural Relations: Horses, Knowledge, Technology

Les chevaux au 18e siècle

Steal Of A Turk

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