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1 online resource (pages). |
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Fieldwork encounters and discoveries |
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Fieldwork encounters and discoveries.
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Contents |
Experiencing the city through the quintessential urban bird. The pedestrian pigeon ; Feeding the pigeons: sidewalk sociability in Greenwich Village ; "Do Not Feed the Pigeons": cultural heritage and the politics of place in Venice and London -- The totemic pigeon. New York's rooftop pigeon flyers: crafting nature and anchoring the self ; The Turkish pigeon caretakers of Berlin: primordial ties in a migrant community ; Joey's Brooklyn pet shop: cosmopolitan ties in a changing urban landscape -- Deep play. The Bronx homing pigeon club: nature, nurture, and the enchantment of "The Poor Man's Horse Racing" ; South Africa's million dollar pigeon race: rationalizing and globalizing "The Pigeon Game" ; Conclusion: changing ecologies. |
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Print version record. |
Summary |
The pigeon is the quintessential city bird. Domesticated thousands of years ago as a messenger and a source of food, its presence on our sidewalks is so common that people consider the bird a nuisance-if they notice it at all. Yet pigeons are also kept for pleasure, sport, and profit by people all over the world, from the "pigeon wars" waged by breeding enthusiasts in the skies over Brooklyn to the Million Dollar Pigeon Race held every year in South Africa. Drawing on more than three years of fieldwork across three continents, Colin Jerolmack traces our complex and of. |
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Racing pigeons -- Social aspects.
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Racing pigeons -- Habitat.
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Human-animal relationships -- Social aspects.
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NATURE -- Animals -- Birds.
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NATURE -- Birdwatching Guides.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Ornithology.
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Print version: Jerolmack, Colin. Global pigeon. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013, ©2013 9780226001890 (DLC) 2012017790 (OCoLC)793187660 |
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9780226001920 (electronic bk.) |
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022600192X (electronic bk.) |
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