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ISBN: PB: 9780226559988

ISBN: HB: 9780226559841

University of Chicago Press

May 2018

256 pp.

22.8x15.2 cm

27 halftones

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£20,50
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Animal Intimacies

Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas

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.    

About the Author

Radhika Govindrajan is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Washington.