The invention of the basset hound: breed, blood and the late Victorian dog fancy, 1865-1900
The invention of the basset hound: breed, blood and the late Victorian dog fancy, 1865-1900
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巴吉度猎犬的发明：品种、血统和维多利亚时代晚期的狗的幻想，1865-1900
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10.1080/13507486.2015.1070124
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2015
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Pemberton N
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Pemberton N
在这篇文章中，作者探索了英国犬类饲养的实践和概念化，以及通过“狗的幻想”来展示纯种狗的故事，特别集中在一个品种的故事上：巴塞特猎犬。这不仅仅是英国的养狗者盗用法国犬种的故事；事实上，这是不可能的，因为狗的‘品种’的概念，通过形态定义和血统合法化，正在发明的过程中。他们展示了英国狗展爱好者是如何从众多不同类型的法国猎犬中选择一种作为巴塞特猎犬的，以及这种选择是如何通过参考一段想象的历史而合法化的，在这段历史中，英国狗的幻想将一种高贵的动物从法国人对繁殖和血液的冷漠中拯救出来。所选择的身体形态被标准化为任意的理想，但绝不是静态的。在时代的精神下，它得到了改进，首先是通过动物繁育者的经验方法，使用血统来确保良好和纯净的‘血液’，然后通过科学的应用，特别是人工授精和遗传学理论。
In this article the authors explore the practices and conceptualisations of British dog breeding and the showing of pedigree dogs by the ‘the dog fancy’, focusing specifically on the story of a single breed: the basset hound. This was not simply a story of British dog fanciers appropriating a French dog breed; indeed, this was impossible because the very notion of a dog ‘breed’, defined by conformation and legitimated by pedigree, was in the process of invention. They show how the British dog-show fancy chose one, from many and varied types of French hound, to be the basset hound, and how this choice was legitimated by reference to an imagined history, where the British dog fancy rescued a noble animal from French indifference to breed and blood. The chosen physical form was standardised to arbitrary ideal, but was by means no static. In the spirit of the times, it was ‘improved’, first by the empirical methods of animal breeders, using pedigrees to secure good and pure ‘blood’, and then by the application of science, particularly artificial insemination and hereditarian theories.