Rodeo An Anthropologist Looks at the Wild and the Tame

Name: Rodeo An Anthropologist Looks at the Wild and the Tame
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ISBN: 9780226469553

ISBN-10: 0226469557

ISBN-13: 9780226469553

Edition: 1984 (Reprint)

Authors: Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence

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Rodeo people call their sport "more a way of life than a way to make a living." Rodeo is, in fact, a rite that not only expresses a way of life but perpetuates it, reaffirming in a ritual contest between man and animal the values of American ranching society. Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence uses an interpretive approach to analyze rodeo as a symbolic pageant that reenacts the "winning of the West" and as a stylized expression of frontier attitudes toward man and nature. Rodeo constestants are the modern counterparts of the rugged and individualistic cowboys, and the ethos they inherited is marked by ambivalence: they admire the wild and the free yet desire to tame and conquer. Based on…

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List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/15/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 302
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction



The Sport of Rodeo General Description of Rodeo


The Program of Events in Rodeo



The Origin and Development of Rodeo


The Performance Aspect: The Wild West Show


The Contest Aspect: The American Working Cowboy



Rodeo as the Inheritor of Cowboy Tradition and its Association with Ranching



Man-Horse Relationships in Rodeo Wild Horses


The Mustangs


The Wild Horse Race of Rodeo


The Broncs of Rodeo Horses of the Timed Events of Rodeo Rodeo Horses as Counterparts of Cowboys' Mounts


The Sacrificial Role of the Horse in Rodeo Horses in the Special Acts of Rodeo


The Horse in the Bar



The Role of Cattle in Rodeo Calves, Steers, and Cows Bulls in Rodeo



The Role of Other Animals in Rodeo



Human Relations with Nature Expressed in Rodeo


The Conquest of Pain and Fear


The Emphasis on Physiological Substances



Relations of the Ranch/Rodeo Complex with the Wild


Some Examples from Other Pastoral Cultures Wild Cats at the Rodeo


The Ranch/Rodeo View of the Wild Ranch/Rodeo Attitudes toward the Wild



Summary


References


Index