Animal intimacies : interspecies relatedness in India's Central Himalayas / Radhika Govindrajan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Govindrajan, Radhika, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Animal lives (University of Chicago. Press)

Animal lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals.

Wildlife conservation.

Human-animal relationships.

India--Uttarakhand.

Human-animal relationships--India--Uttarakhand.

Wildlife conservation--India--Uttarakhand.

Animals--India--Uttarakhand--Religious aspects.

Animals--Religious aspects.

Physical Description:

xiii, 220 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Summary:

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 nonhuman animals. Built on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the mountain villages of India's Central Himalayas, Radhika Govindrajan's book explores the number of ways that human and animal interact to cultivate relationships as interconnected, related beings. Whether it is through the study of the affect and ethics of ritual animal sacrifice, analysis of the right-wing political project of cow-protection, or examination of villagers' talk about bears who abduct women and have sex with them, Govindrajan illustrates that multispecies relatedness relies on both difference and ineffable affinity between animals. Animal Intimacies breaks substantial new ground in animal studies, and Govindrajan's detailed portrait of the social, political and religious life of the region will be of interest to cultural anthropologists and scholars of South Asia as well.

Contents:

Introduction

The goat who died for family: sacrificial ethics and kinship

The cow herself has changed: Hindu nationalism, cow protection, and bovine materiality

Outsider monkey, insider monkey: on the politics of exclusion and belonging

Pig gone wild: colonialism, conservation, and the otherwild

The bear who loved a woman: the intersection of queer desires

Epilogue: kukur aur bagh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780226559841

022655984X

9780226559988

022655998X

OCLC:

1008770753

Publisher Number:

99977620396