The flight of the self: Exploring more-than-humancompanionship in rural Pakistan

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dc.contributor.authorKavesh, Muhammad
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-08T23:15:58Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.updated2021-11-28T07:32:45Z
dc.description.abstractThe construct of multispecies anthropology has helped explain some of the ways through which humans develop sensory and embodied connectedness with the more-than human. Yet there is a need to fully comprehend how such connectedness leads to the discovery of the inner self. Through an ethnographic study carried out with rural South Punjabi pigeon flyers in Pakistan between 2008 and 2018, this paper argues that companionship with pigeons allows people to generate a meaningful relationship with their animals, explore their inner emotions and achieve a deeper understanding of the self. This paper takes inspiration from Donna Haraway's critique of Jacques Derrida's cat encounter, and philosophical thoughts of a 12th-century Muslim mystic poet, Farid ud-Din Attar, to examine how becoming with pigeons enables the flyers to structure their lifeworlds, develop entrenched companionship and shape their social choices to achieve wellbeing despite everyday social troubles and emotional anxieties.en_AU
dc.description.sponsorshipQuaid-i-Azam University; Australian National University; Australian Government's Endeavour Award; Australian Anthropological Society's postdoctoral fellowshipen_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn1035-8811en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/281668
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherAustralian Anthropological Societyen_AU
dc.rights© 2021 Australian Anthropological Societyen_AU
dc.sourceThe Australian Journal of Anthropologyen_AU
dc.subjectcompanionshipen_AU
dc.subjectDerrida's caten_AU
dc.subjectDonna Harawayen_AU
dc.subjectFarid ud-Din Attaren_AU
dc.subjectpigeon flyingen_AU
dc.titleThe flight of the self: Exploring more-than-humancompanionship in rural Pakistanen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage57en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage42en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationKavesh, Muhammad, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu5249432@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidKavesh, Muhammad, u5249432en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor000000 - Internal ANU use onlyen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4649897xPUB30en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume32en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1111/taja.12384en_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu4649897en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.wiley.com/en-gben_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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