As suggested before I would reccomend possibly making a game somehting in the vain of the telltale series that focuses more on story than on game play and save on resources. However, even with this the idea of game could take a very long time and there is much to grapple with in regards to if these experiences should be made "playable". My instinct is to reccomend a film but even that is not without its issues. Lastly, I would reccomend cutting up the book and publishing in broad and diverse subject areas in order to make the information touch different bases.
Again, my proposal would be for a game. Perhaps, in the same vain as a telltale game where one focuses on story rather than gameplay but I understand why many would be turned off to this idea. My first insticts is to suggest a film but even that is not without its concerns. I would suggest possibly cutting the book up for quick readable articles, one of the biggest thing that turns people away from reading is the length. Laslty, to spread this within other disciplines I would possibly provide more focus on each section that is relevent to a different field and publish in broad fields so the work touches many places.
The sketch suggest the circulation between acedemics and animal rights activist and I agree with this. Additionally, the sketch says possibly turning the text into a poem. film, or play could yeild similar results. I agree with this, and would push for a film, however there is a strange sybiotic relationship between human and animal and could even see this performing in a visual novel video game or a top down co-op play. While there is concerning issues of making field work a game or "playable" there has been a rising interest to tell stories through video games.
I believe what most drew me in the text is the basic premise of exploring an interaction between human and non-human animals. It seemed strange at first but often in order study humans it seems you study everything around it, and in this case animals were that non-human obect.
The cover I feel is more straight forward ( but I am sure to be wrong). It features a small child chasing goats, a literally intimate interaction with animals which serves to capture the milieu of the text. I do wonder why this photo was taken and say why not a person milking a goat, I believe it is because that sort of picture would display a power dynamic very different than the seemingly symbiotic and natural relationship shared between the child and goats. It in away shows the quoatidianess of the interactions.
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.
The text is described to be Multispecies care in India's central himalayas. Essentially Govindrajan is concerned with the interspecies interaction bewteen human and non-human animals and they must coexist. Additionally, she is concerned with the cultural empahisis or result for being associated with animals and the connotations they bring.