{"product_id":"the-global-pigeon-colin-jerolmack-9780226001890","title":"The Global Pigeon","description":"The pigeon is the quintessential city bird. Domesticated thousands of years ago as a messenger and a source of food, its presence on our sidewalks is so common that people consider the bird a nuisance--if they notice it at all. Yet pigeons are also kept for pleasure, sport, and profit by people all over the world, from the \"pigeon wars\" waged by breeding enthusiasts in the skies over Brooklyn to the Million Dollar Pigeon Race held every year in South Africa.\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on more than three years of fieldwork across three continents, Colin Jerolmack traces our complex and often contradictory relationship with these versatile animals in public spaces such as Venice's Piazza San Marco and London's Trafalgar Square and in working-class and immigrant communities of pigeon breeders in New York and Berlin. By exploring what he calls \"the social experience of animals,\" Jerolmack shows how our interactions with pigeons offer surprising insights into city life, community, culture, and politics. Theoretically understated and accessible to interested readers of all stripes, \u003ci\u003eThe Global Pigeon \u003c\/i\u003eis one of the best and most original ethnographies to be published in decades.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Colin Jerolmack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022600189X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226001890\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/20\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2013","brand":"Colin Jerolmack","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086387720447,"sku":"9780226001890","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_492ae66b-db51-4b55-be16-f74498c2a659.jpg?v=1769094389","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-global-pigeon-colin-jerolmack-9780226001890","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}