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Books

Book cover of 'Animal Enthusiasms: Life Beyond Cage and Leash in Rural Pakistan' by Muhammad A. Kavesh, featuring a red abstract pattern and the Routledge logo.

Research Articles
Cover of American Anthropologist journal, December 2023, Volume 125, Number 4, featuring a red and white geographic map with labeled places, including Russia, South Caucasus, South Africa, Argentina, and others.

The body beyond the face: rethinking multispecies connections through sensory ethnography, Senses and Society, 2025

Welcoming the foreigner: Notes on the possibility of multispecies hospitality, 2024

Magazine cover of Anthropology Today featuring a woman in traditional clothing holding a black and white animal, standing in snow next to a wooden fence. The cover includes titles related to various anthropological topics such as mutualisms, pastoralism, and heritage breed farms.
Cover of American Ethnologist journal showing a person riding a bicycle while carrying a black, white, and red flag. In the background, there are houses and parked cars on a street. The journal's title and volume information are at the top.

Contested Flights: The Perplexity of Intruding “Spy Pigeons” at the India-Pakistan Border, 2023

The flight of the self: Exploring more-than-human companionship in rural Pakistan, 2021

Cover of the South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume XLII, Number 4, August 2019 edition, featuring an image of peacock feathers and a special section on Sri Lanka and the Ramayana.
Cover of Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies featuring a carved wooden cross with intricate details on a gray background.

Face-to-face with the (animal) Other: An invitation to decolonize the anthropology of Pakistan, 2023

Anthropology of mutualism, Anthropology Today, 2023.

Cover of The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 32, Supplement February 2021, featuring a person on horseback practicing archery in a grassy field under a clear blue sky.
The Journal of Asian Studies May 2023 cover, volume 82, number 2, with red geometric background.

From the Passions of Kings to the Pastimes of the People: Pigeon Flying, Cockfighting, and Dogfighting in South Asia, 2018

Priceless Enthusiasm: The Pursuit of Shauq in South Asia, 2019

Book Chapters

Book cover of 'Self Alteration' with abstract figure, subtitle "How people change themselves across cultures," edited by Jean-Paul Baldacchino and Christopher Houston.

Mutualistic Self-Alteration: Human-Pigeon Assemblages in Rural Pakistan, 2024