Books in the Multispecies Encounters series

Focusing on totemic relationships with animals among the Bebelibe of West Africa, this book employs the concepts of 'presencing' and 'the ontological penumbra' to shed light on the ways in which people make sense of the world around them, showing how these concepts account for empathetic and intersubjective encounters with non-human animals.

This book explores the way in which ancient Greek models of philosophy as an attempt to live 'the good life' can be realised through permaculture, showing how practices of sustainable farming or ethical gardening can provide us with the best opportunity to acquire 'moral knowledge' through close relationships with other living beings.

Drawing on a range of sources, this book explores the historical relationship between sea animals and humans, demonstrating that far from being an age-old fear with its origins among seafarers, the conception of the giant squid as deep-sea monster evolved as a product of Enlightenment thinking in the work of zoologists and popular writers.

Based on multispecies ethnographic fieldwork and interviews in the UK, this book explores the social world of the cat fancy, or the leisure activity of breeding and exhibiting pedigree cats, with attention to the relations that breeding and showing practices generate between human guardians, and both pedigree and non-pedigree cats.

Human-animal co-existence is central to a politics of life, how we order societies, and to debates about who 'we' humans think 'we' are. This book reflects the multi-sited, multi-species, multi-logic and multiple ways in which lives are and have been assembled, disassembled, practised and possibly policed and politicized.

Human-animal co-existence is central to a politics of life, how we order societies, and to debates about who 'we' humans think 'we' are. This book reflects the multi-sited, multi-species, multi-logic and multiple ways in which lives are and have been assembled, disassembled, practised and possibly policed and politicized.