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Iridescent Skin<\/em><\/strong> is the first of its kind multispecies ethnography on humans and white sharks, entangled through the practice of cage diving at the very end of New Zealand. It is based on an immersive field work of marine anthropologist Prof. Raj Sekhar Aich, and his friend, research assistant, and anthropologist — Soosan Lucas, as they go in search of the elusive and mystified Great White Sharks of Foveaux Strait.<\/p>\n

This is not a ‘shark book’, although it revolves around sharks in the classical sense of the manner. It is also not merely an academic book, although it is based on detailed academic investigation. Neither is it an exploration of shark behavior or ecology, although they are certainly part of it, and no, it is not even a book about shark attacks, although shark bites are featured here. It is, on the surface, a sensory narrative of human and white shark encounters, but beneath the ripples, it is a story of love: among humans, rivers, oceans, bricks, stones, and sharks.<\/p>\n

As Prof. Agustín Fuentes puts it, the book ‘invites the reader along…at the intersection of two sentient species, humans and white sharks.… The book you hold in your hands, is an enticement into the experiential journey of a scholar, artist and narrator who starts out with the goal of appreciating or assessing a multispecies entanglement, but ends up traversing a tangle of personal, social, historical, ecological and perceptual water\/land\/species-scapes.… This is an immersive multispecies anthropology.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First of its kind multispecies ethnography on humans and white sharks, entangled through the practice of cage diving at the very end of New Zealand based on an immersive field work of marine anthropologist Prof. Raj Sekhar Aich.<\/p>\n

Foreword
\n Introduction<\/p>\n

ABHISHAR: THE ASSIGNATION
\n Underneath the Southern Isle
\n The Trampoline Cat
\n Allegory of the Cage
\n Social Science of a Big, Biting Fish
\n Alexander and the Sharks
\n The Southernmost Cage Diving in the World
\n ‘ Rough and Tough, They come from Bluff’
\n Uncertain Hypnogogic Liminality<\/p>\n

APEKSHA: THE WAIT
\n Shark Net
\n Reverie
\n Suicide Vest
\n View from the Cage Top
\n The Diving of Cage Diving
\n Furniture of Whale Vertebra
\n The Vikings Are Coming
\n Turbulent Waters
\n Multispecies Conflict
\n The Shark with the Pink Sunglasses
\n The Abyssal Tourist of Foveaux
\n Absence of the Sharks
\n The Silence of the Sharks
\n The Cottage and Unexpected Company
\n The Care Package with a Bourbon Cigar<\/p>\n

MILAN: THE MEET
\n A Meeting after a Hundred Million Years of Waiting
\n The Lovers
\n Demystifying the Monster
\n How Else Will You See Swedish Girls in Bluff
\n Marshmallows from the Sea
\n Rocky, the Excited Shark
\n Babu Ghat
\n The Rhododendron Forest and the Deserted Meat Factory
\n Memories Flicker
\n Making Sense of it All
\n The Promise of Springsteen<\/p>\n

Epilogue
\n The Documentary
\n References<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[21581],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33906","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-natural-world","7":"author-by-author-raj-sekhar-aich","8":"publisher-niyogi-books","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nIridescent Skin - ACC Art Books US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/iridescent-skin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Iridescent Skin - ACC Art Books US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"First of its kind multispecies ethnography on humans and white sharks, entangled through the practice of cage diving at the very end of New Zealand based on an immersive field work of marine anthropologist Prof. Raj Sekhar Aich. 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