Encounters between Humans and Stray Cats in the Urban Environment: An Anthropological Study of Relationality through Touch

在奖学金的大部分时间里，由于新冠肺炎的限制，本财年被延长了六个月，这是奖学金的最后阶段，我能够为这个项目完成大量的期末研究。除了继续在网上努力收集信息并与从事户外猫咪和TNR行动的个人和团体互动外，我还能够继续进行面对面的实地工作。我会见了个人和团体，讨论了他们与TNR的持续努力。我能够在TNR行动之前、期间和之后观察和参与活动，并能够进行更深入的采访。作为我的多模式多物种方法论努力的一部分，我不仅记录了有用的人种学遭遇，而且我试验了编辑软件和渲染不同的模式。虽然我的目标是试验新的方法，以捕捉多物种人种学中的非人类参与者，但我也能够进一步努力研究与人类学其他领域相关的多模式方法。此外，我在三个不同的国际会议上展示了我的研究，在那里我收到了关于我的方法学实验和研究结果的宝贵反馈，我正在用这些反馈来写文章发表和完成我的论文，这是基于这个研究项目的。

This fiscal year, which was extended for six months due to COVID-19 restrictions during the majority of the course of this fellowship, was the final period of this fellowship, and I was able to accomplish a great deal of final research for this project. In addition to continuing the efforts I made online to gather information and interact with individuals and groups working with outdoor cats and TNR operations, I was also able to continue my in-person fieldwork. I met with individuals and groups to discuss their continuing efforts with TNR. I was able to observe and participate with events before, during, and after TNR operations, and I was able to conduct more in-depth interviews. As part of my multimodal multispecies methodological endeavors, I not only recorded useful ethnographic encounters, but I experimented with editing software and rendering different modalities. While my goal was to experiment with new methodologies in order to capture nonhuman participants in multispecies ethnography, I have also been able to further efforts into multimodal methodologies relevant to other areas in anthropology. In addition, I presented my research during three different international conferences, where I received valuable feedback concerning my methodological experiments and research results, which I am using to write articles for publication and to finish my dissertation, which is based on this research project.