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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.
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Humans and Birds in the Anthropocene / Frédéric Laugrand and Scott E. Simon
Part 1: Birds Are Good to Be With (Birds as Partners)
1 Multiple Joining Methods among Fish, Birds, and Fishers: A Regional Case Study of Chinese Cormorant Fishing / Shuhei Uda
2 Bird-Singing Contests Rules and Communication Frames for Animals and Men: Sonorous Ethnography with the Bulbul Breeders of Southern Thailand / Etienne Dalemans
3 The Rooftop of the City: Pigeon-Keeping Practices and the Construction of Masculinities in Amman, Jordan / Perrine Lachenal
4 From the Ground to the Canopy: An Introduction to the Tarkine Forest through Its Birds / Aïko Cappe and Colin Schildhauer
5 Entangled Lives: Toward a Phenomenology of Amateur Birding in Modern Japan / Scott E. Simon
Part 2: Birds Are Good to Think With (Birds in Symbolic Systems)
6 Three Birds, the Emotions, and Cycles of Time in the Central Himalayas / John Leavitt
7 Time, Space, and Typhoons in Ibaloy Birdlore (Philippines Cordillera) / Frédéric Laugrand, Antoine Laugrand, Jazil Tamang, and Gliseria Magapin
8 Birds as Metaphors and More in a Changing Indonesian Community / Gregory Forth
Part 3: Birds Are Good to Craft With (Birds in Material Culture)
9 From Good to Eat to Good to Make: Ethnographical Archaeology of Bird Representations in Ancient Japan / Atsushi Nobayashi
10 Birds as Figurative Patterns and Artifacts as Efficient Agents: Agency and Ritual Behaviour among the Mentawaians of Bat Rereiket (Siberut, Indonesia) / Lionel Simon and Syarul Sakaliou
11 Environmental Shift and Entangled Landscapes: Use of Birds in Amis Ritual Practices of Taiwan / Yi-tze Lee
12 Epilogue: The Emergence of Ethno-Ornithology / Andrew G. Gosler
Index
