The interconnections between humans and elephants in South Asia are remarkably complex both naturally and culturally, yet our understandings are typically framed in terms of animal ecologies or human histories. This tends to produce understandings that sideline one or the other species. In this book however, social scientists, natural scientists, and humanities scholars come together to develop an integrated approach to understanding the often-problematic ways that humans and elephants exist together and influence each other.
The interconnections between humans and elephants in South Asia are remarkably complex both naturally and culturally, yet our understandings are typically framed in terms of animal ecologies or human histories. This tends to produce understandings that sideline one or the other species. In this book however, social scientists, natural scientists, and humanities scholars come together to develop an integrated approach to understanding the often-problematic ways that humans and elephants exist together and influence each other.
Piers Locke teaches anthropology at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. In 2015, he was a fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany. Jane Buckingham teaches history at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She specializes in Indian history and has published on Indian colonial and post-colonial medicine and law, and on ancient Indian models of business ethics.
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* 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 Arthas¿stra - 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
* 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 Arthas¿stra - 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
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