01590nam a22002177a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801410007602801030021708200160032010000260033624500770036226000340043930000250047336500080049852007740050665000170128065000220129765000280131970000250134720260217155153.0250206b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780670091324  a: International Book Distributorsb: Flat No.- 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2,5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhic: 121278d: 30/01/2025  a: Technical Bureaub: 4794/23, 1st Floor, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhic: TB3471d: 11/2/2026  a333.954 GOV  aGovindrajan, Radhika.  aAnimal Intimacies: Beastly Love in the Himalayas.c/Radhika Govindrajan.  aHaryanab : Penguin c, 2018.  axiii, 327p.c: 24cm.  b629  aWhat 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.  aEthnographic  aCentral Himalayas  aCultivate relationships  aRadhika Govindrajan