TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lachenal,Perrine
TI  - Pigeon keeping and the fabrication of masculinity in Ammam (Jordan)
PY  - 2021///.
							
N1  - 81
N2  - This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork about pigeon keeping in Amman. Pigeon racing – ‘kashsh hamâm’ in Arabic – is a particularly popular hobby in Jordanian society. One only has to spend a morning in the midst of the weekly pigeon market to appreciate this–and that pigeons are men’s business. In this article, I describe the ways pigeon fancier activities are organized in Amman, and analyse the gendered figures associated with them. I show that pigeon racing is a matter of distinction within the working classes, linked to models of masculinity of varying value
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-etudes-rurales-2021-1-page-146?lang=en
ER  -