The Multispecies Triad of Cattle Ranching: A Horseback Ethnography

Author:   Andrea Petitt
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781032450469


Pages:   238
Publication Date:   12 November 2025
Format:   Hardback
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The Multispecies Triad of Cattle Ranching: A Horseback Ethnography


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This book explores the multispecies triad of cattle ranching, focusing on how humans, horses, and cattle meet, interact, and shape a common multispecies culture. Based on a year of horseback ethnography in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, it provides a detailed account of the everyday lives of cowboys, cowboying women, and ranchers as well as of horses and cattle. It highlights the different ways that humans, horses, and cattle come together on working ranches and in settings such as rodeos and tourist operations inspired by the American West. By focusing, empirically and conceptually, on the multispecies triad, the author moves beyond binary human–animal approaches and develops the idea of multispecies intersectionality. In particular, this brings a gender perspective to the kinds of interactions that the various seasons in the Rockies require. Furthermore, the author discusses the possibilities of a multispecies concept of power by engaging empirically, conceptually, and methodologically the ""energy bubbles"" with which humans, horses, and cattle communicate with and move each other. The chapters also feature examples of artful methods such as ethnographic poetry including rhyming field notes as well as field drawings and analytical drawings. With this, the book showcases the use of sensory data collection and creative and artful methodologies that allow for the capture of what lies beyond human language in multispecies interactions.

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Author:   Andrea Petitt
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032450469


ISBN 10:   1032450460
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   12 November 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Taking an idea for a walk 2. Learning to relate in multispecies ranch triads 3. “The makings of a hand” 4. The politics of space and the power of ‘energy bubbles’ 5. Winter dyads, winter feeding an intercontinental perspectives 6. Calving, Covid and Quarantining with Cattle 7. Danger, discomfort and pain as sensory data 8. Branding, “dudes” and rodeo: encountering the straight and violent 9. Back to Mountain Summer Range: Final gatherings of cattle and thoughts. References Index

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Author Information

Andrea Petitt is affiliated with the Centre for Gender Research at Uppsala University, Sweden, and a researcher at the Anthropology Lab at University of Liège, Belgium.

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