Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas

In: Animal lives

Abstract

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Goat Who Died for Family: Sacrificial Ethics and Kinship -- 3. The Cow Herself Has Changed: Hindu Nationalism, Cow Protection, and Bovine Materiality -- 4. Outsider Monkey, Insider Monkey: On the Politics of Exclusion and Belonging -- 5. Pig Gone Wild: Colonialism, Conservation, and the Otherwild -- 6. The Bear Who Loved a Woman: The Intersection of Queer Desires -- Epilogue: Kukur aur bagh -- Notes -- References -- Index