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Drawing on more than three years of fieldwork across three continents, the author traces our complex and often contradictory relationship with these versatile animals in public spaces such as Venice's Piazza San Marco and London's Trafalgar Square and in working-class and immigrant communities of pigeon breeders in New York and Berlin.

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"This is the most important book yet written about human and animal interaction. It is full of surprising discoveries. Colin Jerolmack shows why the topic is important: it reveals what it is like to be human." (Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania)"

The Global Pigeon Fieldwork Encounters and

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 3/20/2013 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780226001890
      978-0226001890
      ISBN-10 022600189X
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      Animals and society

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Drawing on more than three years of fieldwork across three continents, the author traces our complex and often contradictory relationship with these versatile animals in public spaces such as Venice's Piazza San Marco and London's Trafalgar Square and in working-class and immigrant communities of pigeon breeders in New York and Berlin.

      Trade Review
      "This is the most important book yet written about human and animal interaction. It is full of surprising discoveries. Colin Jerolmack shows why the topic is important: it reveals what it is like to be human." (Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania)"

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