Английская Википедия:Human hunting
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Шаблон:RedirectШаблон:Short description Human hunting refers to humans being hunted and killed for other persons' revenge, pleasure, entertainment, sports, or sustenance.Шаблон:Cn Historically, incidents of the practice have occurred during times of social upheaval.[1]
Historical examples
- In Ancient Greece, the upper class of Sparta regularly practised the stalking and killing of members of their servile helot population; such murders were carried out both by the secret police (Crypteia) as a means of keeping the helots cowed and unlikely to revolt, and as part of the military training (agoge) for Spartan youths.
- In Europe, authorities sometimes hunted down adherents of "heretical" religious minorities, such as the Waldenses in the Alps[2] the Cathars in the Languedoc,[3] Anabaptists in Germany,[4] and the Huguenots in France.[5]
- During the California genocide of 1846 to 1873, indigenous people were hunted down and killed for bounties.
- During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939, the killing practice became popular[6] among the sons of wealthy landowners. The hunts took place on horseback and targeted landless peasants as an extension of the White Terror. They were jokingly referred to as "reforma agraria" referencing the mass grave the victims would be dumped into and the land reforms the lower classes had been attempting to attain.[7][6]
- Between 1971 and 1983, serial killer Robert Hansen flew many of his victims into the Alaskan wilderness, then released them so that he could "hunt" the women with a rifle and a knife.
Other examples
- Some accounts of early human violence associate the development of warfare – aggression against humans – with the practice of hunting game.[8][9]
- In 2016, Daniel Wright, senior lecturer in tourism at the University of Central Lancashire, wrote a paper on the possible future of tourism where he discussed how the hunting of the poor ("hunting humans") could become a hobby of the super-rich in a future plagued by economic turmoils, ecological disasters, and global overpopulation.[10]
In fiction
The topic of hunting humans has been the subject of several works of fiction.
- ProbablyШаблон:Or the most famous in English is "The Most Dangerous Game", a 1924 short story by Richard Connell, which has been adapted dozens of times for film, radio, and television.[11]
- the 1985 [novel]by Cormac McCarthy [“Blood meridian”], or evening redness in the west]. “Fictional recurring of the [“Glanton gang”] who were a posse of outlaws staged in the mid 19th century. Est(1840-1850, which depicted hunting, genocide and evidential scalping of native Apache, Mexican and other various indigenous peoples.(published by random house inc.1985)
- The 1993 action film Hard Target, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, partly inspired by Richard Connell's book, revolves around exploited trophy hunting of homeless veterans.
- The Marvel Comics features Kraven the Hunter, a big game hunter, hunting super-enhanced humans including Spider-Man for glory.
- The 1995 film Jumanji and its TV series features Van Pelt, a big game hunter who engages in human hunting among his poaching.
- The 1999 version of Tarzan features Clayton, a big game hunter, threatening to hunt Tarzan for sport. The video game features him threatening to get Tarzan stuffed during the final boss level.
- Batman Beyond features the Stalker, a big game hunter cybernetically enhanced, seeking to hunt Batman for glory.
- In George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire epic fantasy-novel series and its HBO television adaptation Game of Thrones, the character Ramsay Bolton, who first appeared in the second book, A Clash of Kings (1998), loved hunting naked young women in forests with hounds as part of his sadistic sport.
- The 2000 cult classic Japanese film of Battle Royale features 42 high-school children sent by a totalitarian government to battle each other to death.
- The 2005 horror film Wolf Creek, along with its 2013 sequel, and 2016 spin-off television series, evolve around a sadistic serial killer, Mick Taylor (played by John Jarratt), who hunts, tortures, and murders backpacker victims for sport in the Australian Outback.
- The 2008 onward books series and 2012 onward films of The Hunger Games features a dystopian future where contestants are chosen by means of a lottery and forced to battle to death.
- The 2018 Jack Reacher novel Past Tense by Lee Child has a major plot-point of a motel operator in a remote town conducting "a people hunt" for a rich clientele.
- The Brazilian film Bacurau (2019) tells the story of a small poor village in countryside Brazil called Bacurau, where white rich foreign tourists travel to hunt down the poor villagers. The movie got two nominations in Cannes, Palme d'Or and the Jury Prize, winning the latter. The film also took home the trophy for Best Picture at the 2019 Munich Festival.
- The 2020 satirical film The Hunt revolves around the hunting of "deplorables" by upper middle-class people in revenge for the former propagating conspiracy theories about the latter.
- In the Japanese Manga One Piece Chapter 1096 is titled "Kumachi". The celestial dragons are hunting some of their slaves and the natives of the island called God Valley for amusement
See also
- Blood sport
- Bounty hunter
- Category:Fiction about death games
- Genocide
- Gladiators
- Headhunting
- Lynching
- Premeditated murder
- Psychopathy
- Serial killer
- Sexual sadism disorder
- Spree killer
- Thrill killing
- War criminal
- Witch-hunt
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