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Author Song, Hoon

Title Pigeon trouble : bestiary biopolitics in a deindustrialized America / Hoon Song
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (262 pages)
Series EBL-Schweitzer
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Cruelty through Glassy Eyes -- Chapter Two. Gloved Love -- Chapter Three. Hooliganism -- Chapter Four. Pests and Outcasts -- Chapter Five. Mimesis and Conspiracy Theory -- Chapter Six. Representationalism's Animal Other -- Chapter Seven. Th e Line of Flight, Out of Bird Phobia -- Conclusion. Self-Reflexivity and Finite Thinking -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary Pigeon Trouble chronicles a foreign-born anthropologist's venture into a miners' occult craft of pigeon shooting in the depths of Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country
Analysis "Multi-User"
Notes OldControl:muse9780812200096
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Animal rights activists -- Pennsylvania
Pigeon shooting -- Political aspects -- Pennsylvania
Pigeon shooting -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Pennsylvania
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Animal rights activists
Pennsylvania
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010004928
ISBN 9780812200096
0812200098
1283891034
9781283891035
0812222709
9780812222708