{"product_id":"9780226771922-crooked-cats-beastly-encounters-in-the-anthropocene","title":"Mathur Nayanika - Crooked Cats Beastly Encounters In The Anthropocene - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: Big cats tigers leopards and lions that make prey of humans are commonly known as man - eaters. Anthropologist Nayanika Mathur reconceptualizes them as cats that have gone off the straight path to become crooked. Building upon fifteen years of research in India this groundbreaking work moves beyond both colonial and conservationist accounts to place crooked cats at the center of the question of how we are to comprehend a planet in crisis. There are many theories on why and how a big cat comes to prey on humans with the ecological collapse emerging as a central explanatory factor. Yet uncertainty over the precise cause of crookedness persists. Crooked Cats explores in vivid detail the many lived complexities that arise from this absence of certain knowledge to offer startling new insights into both the governance of nonhuman animals and their intimate entanglements with humans. Through creative ethnographic storytelling Crooked Cats illuminates the Anthropocene in three critical ways: as method as a way of reframing human - nonhuman relations on the planet and as a political tool indicating the urgency of academic engagement. Weaving together beastly tales spun from encounters with big cats Mathur deepens our understanding of the causes consequences and conceptualization of the climate crisis.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Crooked Cats Beastly Encounters In The Anthropocene\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Mathur Nayanika\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: The University Of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780226771922\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 224 Pages, 16 Halftones\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 7\/12\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\nSeries: Animal Lives\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Archaeology","brand":"Mathur Nayanika","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49593405505841,"sku":"IN-G-9780226771922","price":34.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9780226771922.jpg?v=1753225797","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780226771922-crooked-cats-beastly-encounters-in-the-anthropocene","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}