Illegal hunting with dogs in rural South Africa converges around issues of conservation, resource use, and livelihood. Hunting with dogs has a long cultural history, tethered to tradition and subsistence. Today, it is tightly regulated but practiced outside the law. Academic literature and mainstream media alike paint a multidimensional picture of the phenomenon. Some sources portray disenfranchised people practicing a culturally significant livelihood strategy; others emphasize illegal hunting’s destructive nature, severed from traditional context. The drivers of illegal hunting in rural South Africa sit at the nexus of multiple gaps of scholarly insight, linked to a history of widespread stratification of land use, prohibition of traditional hunting, and systematic control of African possession of dogs. There is a need for ethnographic work rooted in environmental history to grapple with the complex connections underlying this issue.

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是什么驱使狗进行非法狩猎？当代南非的传统实践

南非农村地区与狗的非法狩猎在保护，资源利用和生计问题上趋于一致。与狗打猎有着悠久的文化历史，与传统和生存息息相关。如今，它受到严格的监管，但在法律之外却实行。学术文献和主流媒体都对该现象进行了多维描述。一些消息来源描绘了实行文化上重要的谋生策略的被剥夺权利的人；其他人则强调非法狩猎具有破坏性，这与传统背景截然不同。南非农村地区非法狩猎的驱动因素与学术见解存在众多差距，这与土地使用的广泛分层，禁止传统狩猎以及对非洲拥有狗的系统控制的历史有关。