{"product_id":"pigeon-trouble-9780812222708","title":"Pigeon Trouble","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePigeon 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Offering a rare and intimate account of anxieties that can proliferate in encounters with animal Others, \u003ci\u003ePigeon Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e will certainly become a canonical text in the emergent interdisciplinary tradition of multispecies ethnography.\" * \u003ci\u003eCultural Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Cruelty through Glassy Eyes\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Gloved Love\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Hooliganism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Pests and Outcasts\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Mimesis and Conspiracy Theory\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Representationalism's Animal Other\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. The Line of Flight, Out of Bird Phobia\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Self-Reflexivity and Finite Thinking\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405701325143,"sku":"9780812222708","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812222708.jpg?v=1730493329","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pigeon-trouble-9780812222708","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}