Animal Intimacies : Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas / Radhika Govindrajan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Govindrajan, Radhika, author.

Series:

Animal lives (University of Chicago. Press)

Animal Lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships--India--Uttarakhand.

Human-animal relationships.

Wildlife conservation--India--Uttarakhand.

Wildlife conservation.

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

Animals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages).

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

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 non-human 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:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. The Goat Who Died for Family: Sacrificial Ethics and Kinship

3. The Cow Herself Has Changed: Hindu Nationalism, Cow Protection, and Bovine Materiality

4. Outsider Monkey, Insider Monkey: On the Politics of Exclusion and Belonging

5. Pig Gone Wild: Colonialism, Conservation, and the Otherwild

6. The Bear Who Loved a Woman: The Intersection of Queer Desires

Epilogue: Kukur aur bagh

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed on April 29, 2024).

ISBN:

9780226560045

022656004X

OCLC:

1030993902