Description
Book SynopsisPigeon Trouble chronicles a foreign-born anthropologist's venture into a miners' occult craft of pigeon shooting in the depths of Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country.
Trade Review"Offering a rare and intimate account of anxieties that can proliferate in encounters with animal Others,
Pigeon Trouble will certainly become a canonical text in the emergent interdisciplinary tradition of multispecies ethnography." *
Cultural Anthropology *
"This spectacular account of a remarkable event opens into a larger philosophical consideration of mass cultural identity production. Hoon Song reveals how the animal-based rhetoric of a pigeon shoot connects it to discourses with broad cultural significance. I know of no other book that combines so effectively the elements of ethnography, cultural studies, media event analysis, and contemporary discourse on animals." * John Dorst, University of Wyoming *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Chapter 1. Cruelty through Glassy Eyes
Chapter 2. Gloved Love
Chapter 3. Hooliganism
Chapter 4. Pests and Outcasts
Chapter 5. Mimesis and Conspiracy Theory
Chapter 6. Representationalism's Animal Other
Chapter 7. The Line of Flight, Out of Bird Phobia
Conclusion: Self-Reflexivity and Finite Thinking
Notes
References
Index
Acknowledgments
