Animal Intimacies : Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas /

What does ­it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this central question alongside the intimate-and intense-moments of care, kinship, violence, politics, indifference, and desire that occur between human and non-human animals. Built on extensive ethnographic fi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Govindrajan, Radhika (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]
Colección:Animal Lives
Temas:
Animals > India > Uttarakhand > Religious aspects.
Animals-India-Uttarakhand-Religious aspects.
Human-animal relationships > India > Uttarakhand.
Human-animal relationships-India-Uttarakhand.
Wildlife conservation > India > Uttarakhand.
Wildlife conservation-India-Uttarakhand.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Himalayas.
Hinduism.
South Asia.
agrarian studies.
conservation.
environmental anthropology.
gender and sexuality.
human-animal relations.
kinship.
multispecies ethnography.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Goat Who Died for Family: Sacrificial Ethics and Kinship
  • 3. The Cow Herself Has Changed: Hindu Nationalism, Cow Protection, and Bovine Materiality
  • 4. Outsider Monkey, Insider Monkey: On the Politics of Exclusion and Belonging
  • 5. Pig Gone Wild: Colonialism, Conservation, and the Otherwild
  • 6. The Bear Who Loved a Woman: The Intersection of Queer Desires
  • Epilogue: Kukur aur bagh
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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