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The Presence of Elephants: Sharing Lives and Landscapes in Assam

English

By (author): Paul G. Keil

How to dwell in a forest alongside giants, avoid disturbing a living god, assist an animal with their manners, and help an elephant cross the road. The Presence of Elephants is an anthropological consideration of coexistence, grounded in peoples everyday interactions with Asian elephants. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in Assam, Northeast India, this book examines humanelephant copresence and how minds, tasks, identities, and places are shared between the two species. Sharing lives and landscapes with such formidable beings is a continuously shifting and negotiated exchange inherently composed of tensions, asymmetries, and uncertainties especially in the Anthropocene when breakdowns in communication increasingly have a violent effect.

Developing a multifaceted picture of humanelephant relations in a postcolonial setting, each chapter focuses on a different dimension of encounter, where elephants adapt to human norms, people are subject to elephant projects, and novel interspecies possibilities emerge at the threshold of nature and society. Vulnerability is a common experience intensified in contemporary humanelephant relations, felt through the elephants power to disrupt and transform human lives, as well as the risks these endangered animals are exposed to. This book will be of interest to scholars of multispecies ethnography and humananimal relations, environmental humanities, conservation, and South Asian studies.

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Will deliver when available. Publication date 14 Oct 2024

Product Details
  • Weight: 500g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Oct 2024
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781032494678

About Paul G. Keil

Paul G. Keil is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Ethnology at the Czech Academy of Sciences and an honorary postdoctoral fellow with the Department of Anthropology Macquarie University Australia. He is the co-editor of Composing Worlds with Elephants: Interdisciplinary Dialogues.

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