On the Hunt How Do People Experience the Hunting of Nonhuman Animals?
2020 (English)In: Society and Animals, ISSN 1063-1119, E-ISSN 1568-5306, Vol. 28, no 3, p. 233-251Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The aim of the present study was to examine hunters' experiences of leisure hunting, with a focus on the human-nonhuman animal relationship aspect of the activity. Interviews with twelve Swedish hunters were conducted and analyzed with an inductive thematic approach. The analysis showed that hunting led to an experience of completeness. This experience was complex, encompassing positive ingredients such as flow, peak experience, and transcendence, but there were also negative emotions such as guilt, disgust, and shame. The study showed that the hunters seemed to be aware of these feelings and that killing an animal was thus an ambivalent experience, involving the contrasting feelings of euphoria and guilt.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Brill Academic Publishers , 2020. Vol. 28, no 3, p. 233-251
Keywords [en]
human-animal relationships, hunting, peak experience, flow
National Category
Sociology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-84485DOI: 10.1163/15685306-12341458ISI: 000541135800002Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85092358855OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-84485DiVA, id: diva2:1457969
2020-08-132020-08-132023-12-08Bibliographically approved