Muhammad A. Kavesh

Animal Enthusiasms

Life Beyond Cage and Leash in Rural Pakistan

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Produktbeschreibung

Animal Enthusiasms explores how human-animal relationships are conceived, developed, and carried out in rural Pakistani Muslim society through an examination of practices such as pigeon flying, cockfighting, and dogfighting.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780367859534
• ISBN-10: 036785953X
• Artikelnr.: 60353859

Autorenporträt

Muhammad A. Kavesh is affiliated with the School of Culture, History, and Language at the Australian National University in Canberra, where he received his PhD. He is a recipient of the Australian Anthropological Society's Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Decolonising Passions
2. Living with Pigeons: Rooftop Intimacies
3. The Seduction of Cockfighting: Forbidden Dangers
4. The Spectacle of Dogfighting: Amplified Masculinity
5. A Life with Shauqeen: Familial Relations in a Multi-Species Household
6. Threats to Genuine Shauq
Epilogue: Life Beyond Cage and Leash

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Introduction; 1. Decolonising Passions; 2. Living with Pigeons: Rooftop Intimacies; 3. The Seduction of Cockfighting: Forbidden Dangers; 4. The Spectacle of Dogfighting: Amplified Masculinity; 5. A Life with Shauqeen: Familial Relations in a Multi-Species Household; 6. Threats to Genuine Shauq; Epilogue: Life Beyond Cage and Leash

Rezensionen

'Animal Enthusiasms is truly remarkable work of ethnographic scholarship. With subtle genius and profound empathy Kavesh invites us into a world of tremendous passion, intimate affection and the harsh contrasts that animate the human/non-human animal interface in rural Pakistan. In a world that comes alive in the passion of shauk we gain deep appreciation for how and why pigeons, dogs and other animals are implicated in a poetics of passion that challenges the conceit of exclusive humanism and anthropocentric conceptions of sociality.'

~Joseph Alter, University of Pittsburgh, United States of America