Abstract

GOMEZ, Elías  and  MINO, María Gabriela. (Towards a typology of illegal hunting in northeastern Argentina). Cuad. Fac. Humanid. Cienc. Soc., Univ. Nac. Jujuy [online]. 2022, n.61, pp.113-134. ISSN 1668-8104.

The article takes up the progress of a social investigation on illegal hunting in the northeast of the Argentine Republic. The work problem is the possibility of a multidimensional definition and classification of hunting as it has been practiced during the last decades in the province of Misiones (Argentina). In this way, two combined statistical analyzes, a Multiple Correspondence Analysis, and a Hierarchical Ascending Classification are performed along with an ethnographic exploration of the social meanings of hunting. This methodological combination is related to a perspective that takes up the processual aspects and the regular social interactions between park rangers and hunters. This contribution constitutes an initial approach to the structural and eventual configurations of the different types of illegal hunting. The data used are based on quantitative and qualitative information from government acts of infraction, interviews with park rangers, hunters, and ex-hunters, active in different municipalities of the province of Misiones. This combination of sources and techniques is consistent with the difficulties of analyzing an illegal practice on which first-hand information is not always available. As keys to the analysis, the concepts of structure and event are proposed, in order to combine the varied information available, as well as the multiple perspectives of residents and active agents regarding the conservation of wildlife. Both concepts were used separately in the past to expand the knowledge about the reasons behind the temporal stability of certain practices. In this article, it is argued that both concepts, used together, form an important way to explore the continuities, and, the possible transformations of illegal hunting

Keywords : Illegal Hunting;; Multidimensional typology;; Structure; Event.

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