Feathered Entanglements: Human-Bird Relations in the Anthropocene - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 077487001X ISBN 13 : 9780774870016

Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2025

Synopsis

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 Entanglements offers a rich tapestry of human-bird relations across the Indo-Pacific. In this era of uncontrolled industrialization, we have grown increasingly disconnected from the natural world. The ways in which birds feature in the daily life, symbolic systems, and material culture of humans, from pigeon keeping on the rooftops of Amman to the rituals of Indigenous peoples in Taiwan, can teach us how to live with other species amid the challenges of the Anthropocene.

In a time of intensifying ecological crisis, we need, more than ever, to protect and appreciate non-human lives. Feathered Entanglements embraces the connection between humans, birds, and our shared world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Frédéric Laugrand is professor at Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium and director of its Laboratoire d'anthropologie prospective. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including, with Cunera Buijs and Kim Van Dam, Picturing Places, People, and Practices in the Arctic: Anthropological Perspectives on Representation; and, with Jarich G. Oosten, Inuit, Oblate Missionaries, and Grey Nuns in the Keewatin, 1865-1965.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of British Columbia Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 077487001X
• ISBN 13: 9780774870016
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 348
• Éditeur: Simon Scott E., Laugrand Frédéric
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