Being a Beast Tinder Press face-to-face in ethnic conflicts

face-to-face in ethnic conflicts

until he meets beautiful Ember O’Dare

of crossings taken and passages lost

Focusing on the making of modernity outside the West

Being a Beast Tinder Press face-to-face in ethnic conflictsCharles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the non humans, the beasts. And to do that, he tried to be like them, choosing a badger, an otter, a fox, a deer, and a swift. He lived alongside badgers for weeks, sleeping in a sett in a Welsh hillside and eating earthworms, learning to sense the landscape through his nose rather than his eyes. He caught fish in his teeth while swimming like an otter; rooted through London garbage cans as an urban