Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 544 g
Rethinking Human-Elephant Relations in South Asia
Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 544 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-946722-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press
As formidable instruments of war, they have changed the destinies of empires.
As marauding crop raiders, they are despised.
As an endangered species, they are cherished.
Numerous and often contrasting are the ways in which elephants have been regarded by humans across millennia. Today, with reduced forest cover, human population expansion, and increasing industrialization, interaction between the two species is unavoidable and conflict is not mere happenstance. What, then, is the future of this relationship?
In South Asia, human-elephant relationships resonate with cultural significance. From the importance of elephants in ancient texts to the role of mahouts over centuries, from discussions on de-extinction to accounts of intimate companionship, the essays in this bookreveal the various dynamics of the relationship between two intelligent social mammals. Eschewing such binaries as human and animal or nature and culture, the essays present elephants as subjective agents who think, feel, and emote.
Conflict, Negotiation, and Coexistence underscores the fact that we cannot understand elephant habitat and behaviour in isolation from the humans that help configure it. Significantly, nor can we understand human political, economic, and social life without the elephants that shape and share the world with them.
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Weitere Infos & Material
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Introduction: Conflict, Coexistence, and the Challenge of Rethinking HumanElephant Relations- Piers Locke
- Part One: Humans and Elephants through Time
- 1: The HumanElephant Relationship through the Ages: A Brief Macro-Scale History - Raman Sukumar
- 2: Towards a Deep History of Mahouts - Thomas R. Trautmann
- 3: Science of Elephants in Kau?ilyas Arthasastra - Patrick Olivelle
- 4: Symbolism and Power: Elephants and Gendered Authority in the Mughal World - Jane Buckingham
- 5: Trans-Species Colonial Fieldwork: Elephants as Instruments and Participants in Mid-Nineteenth-Century India -Julian Baker
- 6: The Hall of Extinct Monsters: Mammoths, Elephants, and Nature in the Palaeo-Future - Amy L. Fletcher
- Part Two: Living with Elephants
- 7: Animals, Persons, Gods: Negotiating Ambivalent Relationships with Captive Elephants in Chitwan, Nepal - Piers Locke
- 8: Conduct and Collaboration in HumanElephant Working Communities of Northeast India -Nicolas Lainé
- 9: Cultural Values and Practical Realities in Sri Lankan HumanElephant Relations - Niclas Klixbüll
- Part Three: Sharing Space with Elephants
- 10: Conservation and the History of HumanElephant Relations in Sri Lanka - Charles Santiapillai and S. Wijeyamohan
- 11: ElephantHuman Dandi: How Humans and Elephants Move through the Fringes of Forest and Village - Paul G. Keil
- 12: Challenges of Coexistence: HumanElephant Conflicts in Wayanad, Kerala, South India - Ursula Münster
- 13: Ethnic Diversity and HumanElephant Conflict in the Nilgiris, South India - Tarsh Thekaekara and Thomas F. Thornton
- Bibliography
- About the Editors and Contributors
- Index
