Table des matières

Vivek Menon

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

• More-than-elephants
• Composing worlds beyond “ologies” 
• Themes and contents of the book
• Wild relations, wild individuals, wild affects
• Mahout-elephant relations from past to present 
• Thinking with elephants
• Artistic interludes
• Future directions

Part 1. Wild relations, wild individuals, wild affects

Sayan Banerjee et Anindya Sinha

Chapter 1. Political and affective ecologies of human-elephant relations

A gendered perspective

• Introduction
• Political ecologies of human-elephant relations
• Affective ecologies
• Behavioural diversity
• Gender
• Synthesis
• Acknowledgments

Elizabeth Oriel et Toni Frohoff

Chapter 2. Affective ecologies in Sri Lanka

Farmers’ experiences of relational dialogues amidst elephants in cultivated fields

• Introduction
• Brief history of human-elephant relations
• Farmers and affect
• Elephants’ affective Encounters
• Discussion

Nishant M. Srinivasaiah et Anindya Sinha

Chapter 3. The Outliers

Reimagining human-elephant relation in rurban South India

• Introduction
• Space: landscapes of ever-changing perceptions
• Knowledge: novel conceptions of reality
• Capabilities: emergence of functional states of being and doing
• An outlier’s perspective of the anthropocene
• Acknowledgements

Lauren A. Evans et Redempta Njeri Nduguta

Chapter 4. The implications of being a “problem” elephant

• Introduction
• Laikipia
• Defining the “problem”: individualizing elephants
• Managing the “problem”
• Good fences make good neighbours?
• “Problem elephant control”: the elephant in the room
• Conclusions

Shubhra Nayar et Paul G. Keil

Artistic interlude 1

“Lantana elephants”

• Introduction
• Making real elephants
• The tensions and politics of co-existence

Part 2. Living with elephants. 1. From deep history to future imaginaries

Thomas R. Trautmann

Chapter 5. War elephants and forest people

• Revisiting the role of forest people
• The contribution of forest people

Srikumar M. Menon et Anindya Sinha

Chapter 6. Tusks of wisdom

The elephant in the Buddhist art of Kanaganahalli, southern India

• Introduction
• The Buddhist stupa at Kanaganahalli
• Elephant depictions at Kanaganahalli
• The natural history and biology of elephants
• Handling and behaviour of captive elephants
• The elephant in buddhist religion and rituals
• Concluding remarks
• Acknowledgements

Teckwyn Lim

Chapter 7. From the mouth of the Mahout

A review of elephant command words

• Introduction
• Methodology
• Lexicons
• Commands
• Cluster analysis
• Results overview
• Analysis
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements

Jacob Shell

Chapter 8. Mahuto-futurism

Human-elephant cohabitation in the ecumenopolis

• Introduction
• Demographic plateau or ecumenopolis?
• Asian elephants in human work environments
• Mahuto-futurist images
• Conclusion

Philippe Coste

Artistic interlude 2

My photographic experience with elephants and their mahouts in Laos

Part 3. Living with elephants. 2. Mahoutship

Nicolas Lainé

Chapter 9. Laotian mahouts and elephants

Glimpses into a multispecies system of medicine and care

• Exploring human and elephant knowledge in Laos
• Local knowledge of elephants
• Ritual medicine
• The medicine of plants
• An elephantine knowledge?
• Glimpses into the working elephant diet
• Elephant self-medication and convergence of medicinal-plant use between humans and elephants
• Medicine and care as part of human-elephant multispecies cultures

Sreedhar Vijayakrishnan et Anindya Sinha

Chapter 10. Nāgādhyakshaçaritha

Elephant-mahout relationships in two communities of southern India

• Introduction
• Elephant capture in southern India
• Dhre, Jherek… the malasar and their bonding with wild elephants
• Elephant management by the Malasar
• Religious beliefs and practices
• Nūṟ paṟaññ āṟ ōṅṅi oraṭi… The mahouts of Kerala
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgements

Jennifer A. H. Crawley

Chapter 11. Mahout-elephant relationships

A review of the literature

• Introduction
• Methods
• Literature search
• Overview of the literature
• Results and discussion
• Conclusion
• Annex 1
• Detailed overview of literature

Paul G. Keil

Chapter 12. Musth as a biosocial event

How musth disrupts the relational dynamics of a human-elephant community in Assam

• Musth beyond biological and management frameworks
• Hot hati
• The importance of routine
• The disruption of routine
• Musth as a biological and social event
• Conclusion

Deborah Schrijvers

Artistic interlude 3

Cemetery: multispecies intimacies and extinction

Part 4. Thinking with elephants

Khatijah Rahmat

Chapter 13. Time and the elephant

Temporality as attunement with more-than-human others

• Introduction
• Conceptual foundations for animal temporality
• An elephant temporality
• Elephant eco-cultural identity
• Human-impacted time
• Individual elephant histories
• Reading agency through elephant time
• Conclusion

Anandi Gandhi

Chapter 14. Elephant-farmer coexistence

Multiple methods

• Introduction
• Asian elephant and farmer assemblages
• Attunement
• A survey of methods
• Historical ecology
• Listening
• Drawing and diagramming patterns and traces
• Conclusion

Tarsh Thekaekara

Chapter 15. How elephants are bridging epistemological boundaries

• Background and interdisciplinary challenges
• Disciplinary boundaries
• Understanding elephants and ethograms
• Elephant ethnographies and quantified data
• Conclusion. Conducting inter-epistemological research

Hannah S. Mumby

Chapter 16. Widening the lens

Relationships and interactions between humans and elephants in behavioural ecology studies

• Introduction
• Humans and the human environment in behavioural ecology
• Behavioural ecology’s relationship with the wild
• Elephant research
• Parallels in conservation

Nigel Rothfels

Afterword

List of contributors