Research interests / activities
Muhammad Kavesh is an Australian Anthropological Society’s 2020 Postdoctoral Fellow, affiliated with School of Culture, History, and Language, at the Australian National University. His upcoming book Animal Enthusiasms: Life Beyond Cage and Leash in Rural Pakistan (Routledge 2021, part of Rebecca Cassidy and Garry Marvin series “Multispecies Anthropology: New Ethnographies) is based on two-year ethnographic fieldwork (conducted between 2008-2018). The book examines how human-animal relationships are conceived, developed, and carried out in rural Pakistani Muslim society, and how can we explore diverse modalities of inter-species intimacy through activities like pigeon flying, cockfighting, and dogfighting.