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

本财政年度，由于COVID-19的限制，在本奖学金的大部分课程中延长了六个月，是本奖学金的最后一段时间，我能够为这个项目完成大量的最后研究。除了继续在网上收集信息、与户外猫和TNR工作的个人和团体互动外，我还可以继续我的实地考察。我会见了一些个人和团体，讨论他们在TNR方面的持续努力。我能够在TNR行动之前、期间和之后观察和参与事件，并能够进行更深入的采访。作为我多模态多物种方法学努力的一部分，我不仅记录了有用的人种学遭遇，而且我尝试了编辑软件和渲染不同的模态。虽然我的目标是尝试新的方法，以捕捉非人类的参与者在多物种人种学，我也能够进一步努力到多模式方法相关的其他领域在人类学。此外，我在三个不同的国际会议上介绍了我的研究，在那里我收到了关于我的方法论实验和研究结果的宝贵反馈，我用它来写文章出版，并完成我的论文，这是基于这个研究项目。

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.