1st Edition
The Multispecies Triad of Cattle Ranching A Horseback Ethnography
By Andrea Petitt
Copyright 2025
252 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
252 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explores the multispecies triad of cattle ranching, focusing on how humans, horses, and cattle meet, interact, and shape a common multispecies culture. Based on a year of horseback ethnography in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, it provides a detailed account of the everyday lives of cowboys, cowboying women, and ranchers as well as of horses and cattle. It highlights the different... Read more
1. Taking an idea for a walk 2. Learning to relate in multispecies ranch triads 3. “The makings of a hand” 4. The politics of space and the power of ‘energy bubbles’ 5. Winter dyads, winter feeding an intercontinental perspectives 6. Calving, Covid and Quarantining with Cattle 7. Danger, discomfort and pain as sensory data 8. Branding, “dudes” and rodeo: encountering the straight and violent 9. Back to Mountain Summer Range: Final gatherings of cattle and thoughts. References Index
Biography
Andrea Petitt is affiliated with the Centre for Gender Research at Uppsala University, Sweden, and a researcher at the Anthropology Lab at University of Liège, Belgium.
