Cruzada, Santiago M.Ruiz Ballesteros, EstebanCampo Tejedor, Alberto del2024-09-252024-09-252019-03-10Deception in practice: Hunting and bullfighting entanglements in southern Spain Santiago M. Cruzada, Esteban Ruiz-Ballesteros, and Alberto del Campo Tejedor HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 2019 9:3, 514-52810.1086/706804https://hdl.handle.net/10433/21750Deception is a recurrent strategy deployed in the relations between human beings, between humans and animals, and even between animals, and is normally analyzed from a perspective that emphasizes its discursive nature and certain of its ontological, epistemological and axiological effects. According to this orthodox view, deception falsifies, distorts, and conceals reality; it thus equates to a lie and is consequently devalued by it. An analysis of two ethnographic contexts of human–animal relations in southern Spain—partridge hunting and bullfighting—allows us to go beyond such a univocal and simple notion of deception. Through our analysis we wish to problematize and reconceptualize that notion, in a way that considers it as a practice and even as a resource; as a form of knowledge that fosters interaction and the generation of singular frameworks of experience, in which reality, the product of that deception, is lived—paradoxically—in terms of truth.enAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/DeceptionHuman–animal relationsSouthern SpainHuntingBullfightingPracticejournal articleopen access