Annika A. Culver, "Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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Isn't It a 'Vrta'?
My cousin who lives on this, it's hard to describe but he lives on my uncle's hunting lodge in Germany. He has these aviaries, he also breeds these different chickens for their their plumage and whenever he needs to pay the taxes he sells portions of his deer herd. I like to do experimental experimental anthropology which means going into these spaces if we can doing it i.e. skinning the birds and seeing what that is like eating their their flesh. This happened with a pair of doves that had been shot by a friend of ours and you know just as close as I could come to to the subject which was really fascinating.
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