Animal Enthusiasms

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.

Autorentext

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).

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

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