Composing Worlds with Elephants
Interdisciplinary dialogues
Mondes vivantsÉditeur : IRD Éditions
Lieu d’édition : Marseille
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 5 janvier 2024
Collection : Mondes vivants
Année d’édition : 2023
Nombre de pages : 344
Présentation
Composing Worlds with Elephants is an interdisciplinary dialogue exploring the historical, social, and ecological entanglement of humans and elephants, a thousands of years old interspecies connection that is multi-dimensional, ambivalent, and always changing.
Focusing largely on elephants and peoples across Asia, the research in this volume addresses key issues in the study of their relationship including: dimensions of co-existence, cultures of elephant husbandry, and animal agency. Chapters expand how we conceptualize and study elephants, offering ideas that might also help us live better with these endangered animals.
Academic texts are supported by visual contributions from three acclaimed guest artists, original visions that enrich our understanding of human-elephant worlds. Composing Worlds with Elephants is of value to researchers of human-animal relations across the humanities, social and natural sciences, as well as conservationists and an engaged public interested in exploring new perspectives on humanity’s connection with these charismatic giants.
Sommaire
Vivek Menon
ForewordPart 1. Wild relations, wild individuals, wild affects
Sayan Banerjee et Anindya Sinha
Chapter 1. Political and affective ecologies of human-elephant relationsA gendered perspective
Elizabeth Oriel et Toni Frohoff
Chapter 2. Affective ecologies in Sri LankaFarmers’ experiences of relational dialogues amidst elephants in cultivated fields
Nishant M. Srinivasaiah et Anindya Sinha
Chapter 3. The OutliersReimagining human-elephant relation in rurban South India
Lauren A. Evans et Redempta Njeri Nduguta
Chapter 4. The implications of being a “problem” elephantPart 2. Living with elephants. 1. From deep history to future imaginaries
Thomas R. Trautmann
Chapter 5. War elephants and forest peopleSrikumar M. Menon et Anindya Sinha
Chapter 6. Tusks of wisdomThe elephant in the Buddhist art of Kanaganahalli, southern India
Philippe Coste
Artistic interlude 2
My photographic experience with elephants and their mahouts in LaosPart 3. Living with elephants. 2. Mahoutship
Nicolas Lainé
Chapter 9. Laotian mahouts and elephantsGlimpses into a multispecies system of medicine and care
Sreedhar Vijayakrishnan et Anindya Sinha
Chapter 10. NāgādhyakshaçarithaElephant-mahout relationships in two communities of southern India
Paul G. Keil
Chapter 12. Musth as a biosocial eventHow musth disrupts the relational dynamics of a human-elephant community in Assam
Part 4. Thinking with elephants
Khatijah Rahmat
Chapter 13. Time and the elephantTemporality as attunement with more-than-human others
Tarsh Thekaekara
Chapter 15. How elephants are bridging epistemological boundariesHannah S. Mumby
Chapter 16. Widening the lensRelationships and interactions between humans and elephants in behavioural ecology studies
Nigel Rothfels
Afterword
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