BULLFIGHTING

Spanish corrida de toros (running of bulls), Portuguese corrida de touros, French combats de taureaux the Spanish national spectacle, also popular in Portugal, southern France, and Latin America, in which a bull is ceremoniously fought in an arena by a matador and usually killed. Bullfighting is not considered to be a sport, any more than ballet, and is not evaluated as such. Bulls used in corridas de toros are not common meat or milk cattle but a distinctly savage breed, Bos taurus ibericus. Sidney Franklin Barnaby Conrad Additional reading Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon (1932); Barnaby Conrad, Encyclopedia of Bullfighting (1961); Kenneth Tynan, Bull Fever, 2nd rev. ed. (1966); John McCormick, Bullfighting: Art, Technique, and Spanish Society (1998); Adrian Schubert, Death and Money in the Afternoon: A History of the Spanish Bullfight (1999).