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