1st Edition
Animal Enthusiasms Life Beyond Cage and Leash in Rural Pakistan
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
Biography
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).
'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
