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  • Spies and Other Pigeons

    Hospitality and Hostility in Multispecies Pakistan

    by Muhammad A. Kavesh ...
    Contested flights: how Pakistani pigeons unsettle borders and values of hospitalityAcross Pakistan’s rooftops, pigeon flyers devote enormous care and labor to birds that soar the skies, take part in competitions, and knit together communities otherwise divided by caste, class, language, and ethnicity. Spies and Other Pigeons follows these flyers across four provinces, revealing a world of shauq ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • Animal Enthusiasms

    Life Beyond Cage and Leash in Rural Pakistan

    by Muhammad A. Kavesh ...
    Series series Multispecies Anthropology
    Animal Enthusiasms explores how human–animal relationships are conceived, developed, and carried out in rural Pakistani Muslim society through an examination of practices such as pigeon flying, cockfighting, and dogfighting.Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork carried between 2008 and 2018 in rural South Punjab, the book examines the crucial cultural concept of shauq (enthusiasm) and ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Nurturing Alternative Futures

    Living with Diversity in a More-than-Human World

    Edited by Muhammad Kavesh, Natasha Fijn ...
    Developing upon emerging environmental humanities and multispecies anthropological theories, this book provides a fresh perspective on how we might rethink more-than-human relationality and why it is important to "nurture alternative futures". The diverse chapters examine the life trajectories of people, animals, plants, and microbes, their lived experiences and constituted relationality, offering ... Read more

    $85.19 CAD

  • Self-Alteration

    How People Change Themselves across Cultures

    by Max Harwood, Gil Hizi, Michael Jackson, Muhammad Kavesh, Gisella Orsini, Nigel Rapport, Kathryn Rountree, Banu Senay, Jaap Timmer ...
    Many of us feel a pressing desire to be different—to be other than who we are. Self-conscious, we anxiously perceive our shortcomings or insufficiencies, wondering why we are how we are and whether we might be different. Often, we wish to alter ourselves, to change our relationships, and to transform the person we are in those relationships. Not only a philosophical question about how other people ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD

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    Making Kin in the Chthulucene

    by Donna J. Haraway ...
    Series series Experimental Futures
    In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and ... Read more

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  • Big Gods

    How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict

    by Ara Norenzayan ...
    How did human societies scale up from small, tight-knit groups of hunter-gatherers to the large, anonymous, cooperative societies of today--even though anonymity is the enemy of cooperation? How did organized religions with "Big Gods"--the great monotheistic and polytheistic faiths--spread to colonize most minds in the world? In Big Gods, Ara Norenzayan makes the surprising and provocative ... Read more

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  • Quarterly Essay 24 No Fixed Address

    Nomads and the Fate of the Planet

    by Robyn Davidson ...
    Series Book 24 - Quarterly Essay
    After many thousands of years, the nomads are disappearing, swept away by modernity. Robyn Davidson has spent a good part of her life with nomadic cultures – in Australia, north-west India, Tibet and the Indian Himalayas – and she herself calls three countries home. In this Quarterly Essay, she draws on her unique experience to delineate a vanishing way of life.In a time of environmental peril, ... Read more

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  • Identity

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Florian Coulmas ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Identity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts. Anything and everything has an identity, and identity crises have become almost equally pervasive. Yet 'identity' is extremely versatile, meaning different things to different people and in different scientific disciplines. To many its meaning seems self-evident, since its various uses share common ... Read more

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  • Animal Rights

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David DeGrazia ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, David DeGrazia explores the implications for how we should treat animals in connection with our diet, zoos, and research. Animal Rights ... Read more

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  • Why We Believe

    Finding Meaning in Uncertain Times

    by Prof. Alister McGrath ...
    Belief: surely it’s a relic from the past, a hangover from a superstitious age that is totally out of sync with today’s rational, science-led culture?'A timely, often bracing and always highly stimulating book.' Tom Holland, author of Dominion and co-host of The Rest is HistoryIn today’s science-driven, rational world, belief is dismissed as an artefact of a bygone era – something absurd at best, ... Read more

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  • Pollution Is Colonialism

    by Max Liboiron ...
    In Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or against colonialism. They point out that even when researchers are working toward benevolent goals, environmental science and activism are often premised on a colonial worldview and access to land. Focusing on plastic pollution, the book models an ... Read more

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  • Being Pakistani

    Society, Culture and the Arts

    by Raza Rumi ...
    How different is Pakistan's culture from that of India? Exploring various aspects of the arts, literature and heritage of Pakistan, Raza Rumi argues that culture in Pakistan is not particularly unique to the nation, but rather a part of the cultural identities shared by South Asians. From the songs of Kabir and the ballads of Bulleh Shah to the cult of the feminine in the Sindh region, Rumi takes ... Read more

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