Crooked CatsBig catstigers, leopards, and lionsthat make prey of humans are commonly known as man eaters. Anthropologist Nayanika Mathur reconceptualizes them as cats that have gone off the straight path to become crooked. Building upon fifteen years of research in India, this groundbreaking work moves beyond both colonial and conservationist accounts to place crooked cats at the center of the question of how we are to comprehend a planet in crisis. There are