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Pigeon Trouble–Now Available


Pigeon Trouble: Bestiary Biopolitics in a Deindustrialized America


Hoon Song

272 pages | 6 x 9

Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4242-3 | $49.95 | £32.50

Pigeon Trouble"I know of no other book that combines so effectively the elements of ethnography, cultural studies, media event analysis, and contemporary discourse on animals."–John Dorst, University of Wyoming

Pigeon Trouble chronicles a foreign-born anthropologist's venture into a miners' craft of pigeon shooting in the depths of Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country.

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