Pigdogging is a popular pastime in Australia, a form of recreational hunting whereby people collaborate with dogs to chase and catch wild pigs. This paper analyses the hunt as an interspecies event that unfolds through the sensual and sensory entanglements of human and nonhuman, with a particular focus on the perspectives of the hunters. The concept of ‘atmosphere’ will be employed to frame an ethnographic analysis of two facets of pigdogging. First, by hunting with a dog, humans augment their capacity to identify the presence of pigs through the canine's extraordinary sense of scent. Through this relationship, the world of scent is revealed as having atmospheric properties: an enveloping phenomenon which is known through the dog, yet also escapes the hunter's perceptual apprehension. Second, this paper will illustrate examples of how atmosphere develops through the sensual relations between human and nonhuman bodies during the hunt. An affectively charged interspecies encounter is composed and participated in by the hunter through this recreational practice, and affords the enactment of subjectivities central to an aesthetics of pigdogging. Hunting atmospheres in this paper emerge at the juncture of human and more‐than‐human bodies, perspectives and worlds.

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等级气氛：超越人类的嗅觉空间和追捕猎物的美学

养猪是澳大利亚一种流行的消遣方式，是一种休闲狩猎，人们与狗一起追逐和捕捉野猪。本文将狩猎作为一种物种间事件进行分析，该事件通过人类和非人类之间的感官和感觉纠缠而展开，特别关注猎人的观点。“大气”的概念将被用来构成对缠身的两个方面的人种学分析。首先，通过与狗打猎，人类通过犬的非凡嗅觉增强了识别猪的存在的能力。通过这种关系，气味的世界被揭示为具有大气特性：一种被狗所知的包围现象，但也逃脱了猎人对感知的恐惧。第二，本文将举例说明在狩猎过程中，大气如何通过人体与非人体之间的感官关系发展。猎人通过这种娱乐活动组成并参加了充满感情的种间inter会，并提供了养猪美学的核心主观性。本文中的狩猎气氛出现在人类以及超越人类的身体，观点和世界的交汇处。