The text seems to be designed as an interspecies ethngraphy. It focuses on the meso level farmers and owner of the animals in Kumaon and how their community is both being percieved and acted upon by outside forces such as NGO's and the goverment because of the perception created by animals. It appears to be an elightening text focused on bring to light the practices of groups like PFA and provide why this group of people are the exact opposite of what these groups believe.