Muhammad A. Kavesh

My book, Animal Enthusiasms: Life Beyond Cage and Leash in Rural Pakistan (2021) explores cultural meanings associated with pigeon flying, cockfighting and dogfighting in Pakistan and discusses human-animal relationships, masculinities, anthropology of ethics, sensory analysis, and visual anthropology. These issues are further explored through a special journal issue I co-edited for the Australian Journal of Anthropology on “Sense-Making in a More-than-Human World.” I am currently working on a research project that explores the ethics of air-surveillance through “spy pigeons” on Indian-Pakistani border, and its ethical, moral, religious, and political significance in contemporary South Asia. I am affiliated with the Anthropology Departments at the Australian National University and the University of Toronto.