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The Global Pigeon (Paperback)
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The Global Pigeon (Paperback)
Series: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
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The pigeon is the quintessential city bird. Domesticated thousands
of years ago as a messenger and a source of food, its presence on
our sidewalks is so common that people consider the bird a nuisance
- if they notice it at all. Yet pigeons are also kept by people all
over the world for pleasure, sport, and profit, from the "pigeon
wars" waged by breeding enthusiasts in the skies over Brooklyn to
the Million Dollar Pigeon Race held every year in South Africa.
Drawing on more than three years of fieldwork across three
continents, Colin Jerolmack 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. By exploring what he calls "the
social experience of animals," Jerolmack shows how our interactions
with pigeons offer surprising insights into city life, community,
culture, and politics. Theoretically understated and accessible to
interested readers of all stripes, "The Global Pigeon" is one of
the best and most original ethnographies to be published in
decades.
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