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The potentials of hunting

Grant number: 22/04226-2
Support Opportunities:Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
Start date: December 01, 2022
End date: May 31, 2023
Field of knowledge:Humanities - Anthropology
Principal Investigator:Felipe Ferreira Vander Velden
Grantee:Luisa Amador Fanaro
Supervisor: Santiago Montero Cruzada
Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
Institution abroad: Universidad de Sevilla (US), Spain  
Associated to the scholarship:19/17736-6 - How to hunt a truffle: relations between dogs, fungi and humans in Chilean truficulture, BP.DR

Abstract

The aim of this research project is to develop one of the main themes of my doctoral research in progress, which consists of investigating the relationships between truffle hunting dogs, truffles themselves and truffle farmers in Chile: what does it mean "to hunt" a truffle? Both in Chile and in Spain, a fundamental participant on the implementation of truficulture in the South American country, the verb "to hunt" is widely used to refer to the practices in question - the search, or harvest, of black truffles (Tuber melanosporum), with the help of working dogs. Through an exchange period at the Universidad de Sevilla under the supervision of Santiago Montero Cruzada, a reference in the discussions involving hunting practices and the relationships between humans and animals in Spain, I will seek to deepen, from my ethnographic data and the available bibliography, what "hunting" means, materially-semiotically. In other words, my intentions are to reflect on what truffle dogs can do in the Chilean context in order to unveil what it means to "hunt" and its various possibilities, as well as the complexity of the status of hunting a cultivated, subterranean and apparently inert fungus. (AU)

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