2013
DOI: 10.1177/0539018413477522
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In the (bleary) eye of the tiger: An anthropological journey into jungle backyards

Abstract: North America shelters a growing population of so-called 'exotic animals'. If the phenomenon is not recent, it now fuels a considerable black market. Jungle backyards compose a non-negligible (yet often neglected) part of some modern ecological landscapes. This article explores problematical situations emerging from these shared humanimal lives. It presents the first results of a multi-species ethnography and examines the prevalence of what I call beastness -an antique commerce amid humans and animals that rev… Show more

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“…I reflect on some emergentist processes of information and communication that now compose contemporary animal lives. Propelled by an ethnographical enterprise I have been developing over the last seven years (see Jaclin 2013a, 2013b), this article elaborates more specifically on fieldwork I undertook in Malaysian Borneo during the summer of 2014, where I did research among peoples and animals of Sabah. From the courting of two solitary pangolin animals and their mating along traces of feces in the rainforest to the consuming of a highly prized delicacy made out of their offspring’s flesh in a Vietnamese restaurant where white collars celebrate a friend’s promotion, my work draws on the complex organic/mechanical/symbolic circulation that the expansion of contemporary wildlife trafficking entails.…”
Section: Vies Minusculesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…I reflect on some emergentist processes of information and communication that now compose contemporary animal lives. Propelled by an ethnographical enterprise I have been developing over the last seven years (see Jaclin 2013a, 2013b), this article elaborates more specifically on fieldwork I undertook in Malaysian Borneo during the summer of 2014, where I did research among peoples and animals of Sabah. From the courting of two solitary pangolin animals and their mating along traces of feces in the rainforest to the consuming of a highly prized delicacy made out of their offspring’s flesh in a Vietnamese restaurant where white collars celebrate a friend’s promotion, my work draws on the complex organic/mechanical/symbolic circulation that the expansion of contemporary wildlife trafficking entails.…”
Section: Vies Minusculesmentioning
confidence: 99%