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OverviewAs 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Piers Locke (Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, University of Canterbury, New Zealand) , Jane Buckingham (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Canterbury, New Zealand)Publisher: OUP India Imprint: OUP India Dimensions: Width: 14.70cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 22.50cm Weight: 0.512kg ISBN: 9780199467228ISBN 10: 0199467226 Pages: 384 Publication Date: December 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; 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=astra - 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 Laine; 9: Cultural Values and Practical Realities in Sri Lankan HumanElephant Relations - Niclas Klixbull; 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 Munster; 13: Ethnic Diversity and HumanElephant Conflict in the Nilgiris, South India - Tarsh Thekaekara and Thomas F. Thornton; Bibliography; About the Editors and Contributors; IndexReviewsThe subject matter is very topical... This book provides a fairly comprehensive overview of the relationships and conflicts between humans and elephants in south and south-east Asia. The cultural context approach offered by some of the authors is unusual and intruiguing and could be useful in informing more effective strategies for intervention by land use planners and policy-makers. * Lisa Yon, Animal Welfare * Author InformationPiers 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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