Animal Enthusiasms

Life Beyond Cage and Leash in Rural Pakistan
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-85953-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: Multispecies Anthropology

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.

Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork carried between 2008 and 2018 in rural South Punjab, the book examines the crucial cultural concept of shauq (enthusiasm) and provides critical insight into changing ways of life in contemporary Pakistan. It tracks the relationships between men mediated by non-human animals and discusses how such relationships in rural areas are coded in complex ways. The chapters draw on debates around transformations of animal activities over time, the changing forms of human–animal intimacy and their impact on familial relationships, and rural Punjabi values attached to the performance of masculine honour.

The book will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, multi-species ethnography, gender and masculinity studies, and South Asian studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kavesh, Muhammad A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).