Scott E. Simon is a professor in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa and began studying human-bird relations as a visiting professor at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan. Among his publications are four ethnographies of Taiwan: Sweet and Sour: Life-Worlds of Taipei Women Entrepreneurs; Tanners of Taiwan: Life Strategies and National Culture; Sadyaq Balae! L'autochtonie formosane dans tous ses états; and Truly Human: Indigeneity and Indigenous Resurgence on Formosa.

Frédéric Laugrand is a professor at Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium and director of its Laboratoire d'anthropologie prospective (LAAP). He is the author and editor of numerous books, most recently co-authoring, with Antoine Laugrand, Des voies de l'ombre: Quand les chauves-souris sèment le trouble; with Cunera Buijs and Kim Van Dam, Picturing Places, People, and Practices in the Arctic: Anthropological Perspectives on Representation; and, with Jarich G. Oosten, Inuit, Oblate Missionaries, and Grey Nuns in the Keewatin, 1865-1965.

Contributors: Aiko Cappe, Étienne Dalemans, Gregory Forth, Andrew G. Gosler, Perrine Lachenal, Antoine Laugrand, John Leavitt, Yi-tze Lee, Gliseria Magapin, Atsushi Nobayashi, Syarul Sakaliou, Colin Schildhauer, Lionel Simon, Jazil Tamang, and Shuhei Uda.

Preface

Introduction: Humans and Birds in the Anthropocene / Frédéric Laugrand and Scott E. Simon

Part 1: Birds Are Good to Be With (Birds as Partners)

1 Multiple Joining Methods among Fish, Birds, and Fishers: A Regional Case Study of Chinese Cormorant Fishing / Shuhei Uda

2 Bird-Singing Contests Rules and Communication Frames for Animals and Men: Sonorous Ethnography with the Bulbul Breeders of Southern Thailand / Etienne Dalemans

3 The Rooftop of the City: Pigeon-Keeping Practices and the Construction of Masculinities in Amman, Jordan / Perrine Lachenal

4 From the Ground to the Canopy: An Introduction to the Tarkine Forest through Its Birds / Aïko Cappe and Colin Schildhauer

5 Entangled Lives: Toward a Phenomenology of Amateur Birding in Modern Japan / Scott E. Simon

Part 2: Birds Are Good to Think With (Birds in Symbolic Systems)

6 Three Birds, the Emotions, and Cycles of Time in the Central Himalayas / John Leavitt

7 Time, Space, and Typhoons in Ibaloy Birdlore (Philippines Cordillera) / Frédéric Laugrand, Antoine Laugrand, Jazil Tamang, and Gliseria Magapin

8 Birds as Metaphors and More in a Changing Indonesian Community / Gregory Forth

Part 3: Birds Are Good to Craft With (Birds in Material Culture)

9 From Good to Eat to Good to Make: Ethnographical Archaeology of Bird Representations in Ancient Japan / Atsushi Nobayashi

10 Birds as Figurative Patterns and Artifacts as Efficient Agents: Agency and Ritual Behaviour among the Mentawaians of Bat Rereiket (Siberut, Indonesia) / Lionel Simon and Syarul Sakaliou

11 Environmental Shift and Entangled Landscapes: Use of Birds in Amis Ritual Practices of Taiwan / Yi-tze Lee

12 Epilogue: The Emergence of Ethno-Ornithology / Andrew G. Gosler

Index