Feathered Entanglements

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