Radhika Govindrajan’s Animal Intimacies studies interspecies instances of this concept in Uttarakhand (“oo-tuh-RAH-kund”), exemplified by pahari relationships with goats, monkeys, and others. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this concept that Janet Carsten introduced to kinship studies. It describes the lived experience of kinship via interactions like care and labor, violence, and sharing of natural resources.
ANSWER: relatedness
[10e] A chapter in Animal Intimacies contrasts villagers’ relationship to local animals of this species with their relationship to those imported from Jersey, and discusses how a BJP ban led to an underground trade in these animals for slaughter.
ANSWER: cows [or goru or gau mata; accept bovines; prompt on cattle; reject “bulls”]
[10m] Govindrajan’s multispecies ethnography draws from the work of these two UC Santa Cruz scholars, who over the past decade have developed theories of the Plantationocene as a term for our current age. Name either of them.
ANSWER: Donna Haraway AND Anna Tsing [accept Donna Jeanne Haraway in place of “Donna Harraway”; accept Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing in place of “Anna Tsing”]
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