Preface Introduction: Humans and Birds in the Anthropocene / Frédéric Laugrand and Scott E. Simon Part 1: Birds Are Good to Be With (Birds as Partners) 1 Multiple Joining Methods among Cormorants, Fishers and Fishing Techniques: A Case Study of Regional Similarities and Differences in Cormorant Fishing in China / Shuhei Uda 2 Bird Singing Contests Rules and Communication Frames for Animals and Men: Sonorous Ethnography with the Bulbul Breeders of Southern Thailand / Etienne Dalemans 3 The Rooftop of the City: Pigeon-Keeping Practices and the Construction of Masculinities in Amman / Perrine Lachenal 4 From the Ground to the Canopy: Introduction to the Tarkine Forest through its Birds / Aïko Cappe and Colin Schildhauer 5 Entangled Lives: Toward a Phenomenology of Amateur Birding in Modern Japan / Scott E. Simon Part 2: Birds Are Good to Think With (Birds in Symbolic Systems) 6 Three Birds and the Emotions in the Central Himalayas / John Leavitt 7 Time and Space in Birdlore among the Ibaloy of the Philippines Cordillera / Frédéric Laugrand, Antoine Laugrand, Jazil Tamang, and Gliseria Magapin 8 Birds as Metaphors and Much Else in a Changing Indonesian Community / Gregory Forth Part 3: Birds Are Good to Craft With (Birds in Material Culture) 9 "Good to Eat" or "Good to Make": Ethnographical Archaeology on Changes in the Representation of Birds / Atsushi Nobayashi 10 Birds as Figurative Patterns and Artefacts as Efficient Agents: Agency and Ritual Behaviour among the Mentawai of Bat Rereiket (Siberut, Indonesia) / Lionel Simon and Syarul Sakaliou 11 Environmental Shift in the Entangled Anthropocene: Use and Abuse of Birds in Amis Ritual Practices of Taiwan / Yi-tze Lee 12 Epilogue: The Emergence of Ethno-Ornithology / Andrew G. Gosler Index.