Feathered entanglements : human-bird relations in the anthropocene /
"As they migrated across great distances, ancient humans may have used birdsong and bird sightings to find food and water in unseen territory. Today, attending to birds helps scientists track not only avian migration but also environmental change. Birds remain our sentinels. Feathered Entanglem...
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Vancouver :
UBC Press,
2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Humans and Birds in the Anthropocene
- Part 1 Birds Are Good to Be With (Birds as Partners)
- 1 Multiple Joining Methods among Fish, Birds, and Fishers: A Regional Case Study of Chinese Cormorant Fishing
- 2 Bird-Singing Contests Rules and Communication Frames for Animals and Men: Sonorous Ethnography with the Bulbul Breeders of Southern Tailand
- 3 Te Rooftop of the City: Pigeon-Keeping Practices and the Construction of Masculinities in Amman, Jordan
- 4 From the Ground to the Canopy: An Introduction to the Tarkine Forest through Its Birds
- 5 Entangled Lives: Toward a Phenomenology of Amateur Birding in Modern Japan
- Part 2 Birds Are Good to Tink With (Birds in Symbolic Systems)
- 6 Tree Birds, the Emotions, and Cycles of Time in the Central Himalayas
- 7 Time, Space, and Typhoons in Ibaloy Birdlore (Philippines Cordillera)
- 8 Birds as Metaphors and More in a Changing Indonesian Community
- Part 3 Birds Are Good to Craft With (Birds in Material Culture)
- 9 From Good to Eat to Good to Make: Ethnographic Archaeology of Bird Representations in Ancient Japan
- 10 Birds as Figurative Patterns and Artifacts as Efcient Agents: Agency and Ritual Behaviour among the Mentawaians of Bat Rereiket (Siberut, Indonesia)
- 11 Environmental Shift and Entangled Landscapes: Use of Birds in Amis Ritual Practices of Taiwan
- Epilogue: The Emergence of Ethno-Ornithology
- List of Contributors
- Index