Animal Intimacies: Beastly Love in the Himalayas.
Govindrajan, Radhika.
Animal Intimacies: Beastly Love in the Himalayas. /Radhika Govindrajan. - Haryana : Penguin , 2018. - xiii, 327p. : 24cm.
What do we really know of 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.
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Ethnographic
Central Himalayas
Cultivate relationships
333.954 GOV
Animal Intimacies: Beastly Love in the Himalayas. /Radhika Govindrajan. - Haryana : Penguin , 2018. - xiii, 327p. : 24cm.
What do we really know of 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.
9780670091324
International Book Distributors : Flat No.- 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2,5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi Technical Bureau : 4794/23, 1st Floor, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi
Ethnographic
Central Himalayas
Cultivate relationships
333.954 GOV
